Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
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A friend is, as it were, a second self.
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I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
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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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In time of war the laws are silent.
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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.
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Never injure a friend, even in jest.
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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
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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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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
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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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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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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
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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 countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
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The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.
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I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
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Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.
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The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
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Before beginning, plan carefully.
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The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.