Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

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Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

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The more laws, the less justice.

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He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

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Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

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For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.

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To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

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A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.

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All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

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Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.

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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God

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Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good.

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It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.

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Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

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There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

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That man is guilty of impertinence who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject of his discourse, or pays no regard to the company he is in.

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To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.

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Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

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An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.

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A community is like the ones who govern it.

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