Quotes By Marcus Tullius Cicero

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

Hatred is inveterate anger.

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

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

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.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

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

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.