Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
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The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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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.
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Ability without honor is useless.
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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
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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.
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.
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According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
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To live is to think.
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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.
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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
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True nobility is exempt from fear.
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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
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Laws are silent in time of war.
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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
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Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.