Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

O philosophy, you leader of life.

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What is permissible is not always honorable.

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There is no thing which God cannot accomplish.

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Certain signs precede certain events.

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Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.

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We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

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Taxes are the sinews of the state.

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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

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What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]

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To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.

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Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured; but when we obtain the victory, we must preserve those enemies who behaved without cruelty or inhumanity during the war.

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Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

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For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.

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There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

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Man's best support is a very dear friend.

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The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

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Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.

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There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

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Time is the herald of truth.

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