Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can ne...”

“While there's life, there's hope.”

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

“It is foolish to tear ones hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”

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

“To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare ones self to die.”

“O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered abou...”

“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief”

“The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.”

“What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action c...”

“In times of war, the law falls s”

“I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.”

“We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.”

“Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.”

“Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.”

“Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!”

“The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.”

“For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoe...”

“The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.”

“When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side ...”