Quotes By Marcus Tullius Cicero

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

Nature abhors annihilation.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

Thrift is of great revenue.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

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

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

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

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

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.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.