Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
-
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
-
Laws are silent in time of war.
-
It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.
-
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.
-
What is permissible is not always honorable.
-
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
-
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
-
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
-
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
-
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
-
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
-
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
-
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
-
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
-
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
-
The best interpreter of the law is custom.
-
In time of war the laws are silent.
-
The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
-
Never injure a friend, even in jest.
-
You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
-
Every man's reputation proceeds from those of his own household.
-
No sane man will dance.
-
The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
-
Empire and liberty.