Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

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"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."

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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

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History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

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The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

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Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.

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If anyone cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of feeling at all. From the enduring wonder of the heavens flows all grace and power. If anyone thinks it is mindless then he himself must be out of his mind.

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The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.

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Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]

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To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business.

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Never injure a friend, even in jest.

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No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

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No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god. [Lat., Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans; aut temperans, voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest.]

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For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.

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A community is like the ones who govern it.

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For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

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Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,' is a discreditable one, and should not be admitted for a moment. We should ask from friends and do for friends only what is good.

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Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake.

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War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

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