Cicero

To give counsel as well as to take it is a feature of true friendship.
– Cicero

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and
anxieties.
– Cicero

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
– Cicero

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
– Cicero

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third,
place.
– Cicero

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
– Cicero

While there’s life, there’s hope.
– Cicero

What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
– Cicero

A home without books is a body without soul.
– Cicero

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing
of our grief.
– Cicero

We are not born for ourselves alone.
– Cicero

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
– Cicero

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
– Cicero

A friend is, as it were, a second self.
– Cicero

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
– Cicero

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than
education without natural ability.
– Cicero

Philosophy is the true mother of science.
– Cicero

The appetites of the stomach and the palate, far from diminishing as men grow older, go on
increasing.
– Cicero

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
– Cicero

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is
inspired by glory.
– Cicero

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
– Cicero

In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done.
– Cicero

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.
– Cicero

As I approve of a youth who has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased
with an old man who has something of the youth.
– Cicero

Freedom is participation in power.
– Cicero

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.
– Cicero

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
– Cicero

Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
– Cicero

I remind you, sir, that extreme patriotism in the defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation
in the pursuit of justice no virtue.
– Cicero

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
– Cicero

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
– Cicero

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.
– Cicero

To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
– Cicero

There is no place more delightful than home.
– Cicero

I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
– Cicero

Let the punishment match the offense.
– Cicero

A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any
waters.
– Cicero

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
– Cicero

Endless money forms the sinews of war.
– Cicero

To teach is a necessity; to please is a sweetness; to persuade is a victory.
– Cicero

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
– Cicero

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.
– Cicero

Laws are silent in times of war.
– Cicero

Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
– Cicero

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
– Cicero

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
– Cicero

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
– Cicero

Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.
– Cicero

Friendship is the only thing in this world, the usefulness of which all mankind are in
agreement.
– Cicero

The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.
– Cicero

No one can give you better advice than yourself.
– Cicero

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what
is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of
history?
– Cicero

We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
– Cicero

What is dignity without honesty?
– Cicero

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or
some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent,
or statute.
– Cicero

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
– Cicero

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a
sure hope and trust in itself.
– Cicero

It is a great thing to know your vices.
– Cicero

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without
cultivation.
– Cicero

Ability without honor is useless.
– Cicero

My precept to all who build is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not
the house to the owner.
– Cicero

What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
– Cicero

One should eat to live, not live to eat.
– Cicero

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
– Cicero

We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardor of its passion, but by its
strength and constancy.
– Cicero

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
– Cicero

I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.
– Cicero

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers
pleasure the hightest good.
– Cicero

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
– Cicero

By doubting we come at truth.
– Cicero

I follow nature as my surest guide, and resign myself, with implicit obedience, to her sacred
ordinances.
– Cicero

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the
most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
– Cicero

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.
– Cicero

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
– Cicero

Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.
– Cicero

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
– Cicero

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
– Cicero

If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of
leisure.
– Cicero