Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes And Sayings

No One Has The Right To Be Sorry For Himself For A Misfortune That Strikes Everyone.

It Might Be Pardonable To Refuse To Defend Some Men, But To Defend Them Negligently Is Nothing Short Of Criminal.

Rather Leave The Crime Of The Guilty Unpunished Than Condemn The Innocent.

The False Is Nothing But An Imitation Of The True.

Those Wars Are Unjust Which Are Undertaken Without Provocation. For Only A War Waged For Revenge Or Defense Can Be Just.

More Law, Less Justice.

In Doubtful Cases The More Liberal Interpretation Must Always Be Preferred.

The Best Interpreter Of The Law Is Custom.

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.

Nature Has Planted In Our Minds An Insatiable Longing To See The Truth.

Frivolity Is Inborn, Conceit Acquired By Education.

We Forget Our Pleasures, We Remember Our Sufferings.

According To The Law Of Nature It Is Only Fair That No One Should Become Richer Through Damages And Injuries Suffered By Another.

No Obligation To Do The Impossible Is Binding.

Of All Nature's Gifts To The Human Race, What Is Sweeter To A Man Than His Children?

In Honorable Dealing You Should Consider What You Intended, Not What You Said Or Thought.

No One Can Give You Better Advice Than Yourself.

Natural Ability Without Education Has More Often Attained To Glory And Virtue Than Education Without Natural Ability.

What One Has, One Ought To Use: And Whatever He Does He Should Do With All His Might.

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.

There Are More Men Ennobled By Study Than By Nature.

He Only Employs His Passion Who Can Make No Use Of His Reason.

All Pain Is Either Severe Or Slight, If Slight, It Is Easily Endured; If Severe, It Will Without Doubt Be Brief.

Justice Is The Set And Constant Purpose Which Gives Every Man His Due.

Thou Shouldst Eat To Live; Not Live To Eat.

To Some Extent I Liken Slavery To Death.

It Shows Nobility To Be Willing To Increase Your Debt To A Man To Whom You Already Owe Much.

Not Cohabitation But Consensus Constitutes Marriage.

No Poet Or Orator Has Ever Existed Who Believed There Was Any Better Than Himself.

In A Republic This Rule Ought To Be Observed: That The Majority Should Not Have The Predominant Power.

The Good Of The People Is The Greatest Law.

Every Man's Reputation Proceeds From Those Of His Own Household.

Friendship Improves Happiness And Abates Misery, By The Doubling Of Our Joy And The Dividing Of Our Grief.

A Room Without Books Is Like A Body Without A Soul.

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.

The Pursuit, Even Of The Best Things, Ought To Be Calm And Tranquil.

If You Have A Garden And A Library, You Have Everything You Need.

To Be Ignorant Of What Occurred Before You Were Born Is To Remain Always A Child.

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.

Never Go To Excess, But Let Moderation Be Your Guide.

A Man Of Courage Is Also Full Of Faith.

Memory Is The Treasury And Guardian Of All Things.

Brevity Is The Best Recommendation Of Speech, Whether In A Senator Or An Orator.

Hatreds Not Vowed And Concealed Are To Be Feared More Than Those Openly Declared.

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.

A Friend Is, As It Were, A Second Self.

Next To God We Are Nothing. To God We Are Everything.

The Safety Of The People Shall Be The Highest Law.

A Home Without Books Is A Body Without Soul.

The Wise Are Instructed By Reason, Average Minds By Experience, The Stupid By Necessity And The Brute By Instinct.