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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What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
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The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
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An unjust peace is better than a just war.
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The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.
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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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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
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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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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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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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Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
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No sane man will dance.
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Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.
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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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No one can give you better advice than yourself.
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There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
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A friend is, as it were, a second self.