Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

There is no moment without some duty.

Strict law is often great injustice.

History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.

The works of nature must all be accounted good.

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.

Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.

In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done.

Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

Freedom is participation in power.

Kindness is produced by kindness.

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

Dogs wait for us faithfully.

Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?

All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.

The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

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

Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.

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

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.

It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.

Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.

Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.

It is better to receive than to do injury.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home. [Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.]

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.