Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
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Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.
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We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.
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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
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The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
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The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.
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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.
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For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.
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No one can give you better advice than yourself.
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Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
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An unjust peace is better than a just war.
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Never injure a friend, even in jest.
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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
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Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
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What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
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A friend is, as it were, a second self.
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Before beginning, plan carefully.
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There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.