A home without books is a body without soul.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
A letter does not blush.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Ability without honor is useless.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
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.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
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.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Before beginning, plan carefully.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Hatred is inveterate anger.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
In time of war the laws are silent.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
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.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Laws are silent in time of war.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Like associates with like.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Nature abhors annihilation.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
No obligation to do the impossible is binding.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
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.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
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.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
The budget should be balanced. Public debt should be reduced. The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered, and assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
The good of the people is the greatest law.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
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.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
The more laws, the less justice.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
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.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
To some extent I liken slavery to death.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
True nobility is exempt from fear.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
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.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
While there's life, there's hope.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote
