Quotes By Marcus Tullius Cicero

One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.

No sane man will dance.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

Laws are silent in time of war.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

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

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

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

A letter does not blush.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

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

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.