A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Cicero
A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
Cicero
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
Cicero
Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
Cicero
All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.
Cicero
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
Cicero
As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like."
Cicero
Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.
Cicero
By force of arms.
(Vi Et Armis)
Cicero
Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.
Cicero
Force overcome by force.
(Vi Victa Vis)
Cicero
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
Cicero
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
Cicero
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.
Cicero
I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.
Cicero
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
Cicero
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.
Cicero
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
Cicero
It is a great thing to know our vices.
Cicero
It is a true saying that "One falsehood leads easily to another".
Cicero
Laws are silent in times of war.
Cicero
Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.
Cicero
Let your desires be ruled by reason.
(Appetitus Rationi Pareat)
Cicero
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
Cicero
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
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
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Cicero
Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
Cicero
Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.
Cicero
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
Cicero
No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.
Cicero
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
Cicero
Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
Cicero
Our thoughts are free.
Cicero
Reason should direct and appetite obey.
Cicero
Strain every nerve to gain your point.
Cicero
Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient.
Cicero
The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.
Cicero
The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.
Cicero
The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.
Cicero
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.
Cicero
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.
Cicero
The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.
Cicero
The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.
(Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex)
Cicero
The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.
Cicero
There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.
Cicero
There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.
Cicero
To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches.
Cicero
To each his own.
Cicero
We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.
Cicero
We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.
Cicero
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Cicero
What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.
Cicero
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men'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 of a brimming mind.
Cicero
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
Cicero
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Cicero, 'Pro Plancio,' 54 B.C.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Cicero, (Attributed)
While there's life, there's hope.
Cicero, Ad Atticum
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Cicero, De Amicitia
The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
Cicero, De Amicitia
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
Cicero, De Divinatione
Let the punishment match the offense.
Cicero, De Legibus
The people's good is the highest law.
Cicero, De Legibus
Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Cicero, On Friendship, 44 B.C.
Endless money forms the sinews of war.
Cicero, Philippics
Law stands mute in the midst of arms.
Cicero, Pro Milone
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.
Cicero, Pro Publio Sestio
The freedom of poetic license.
Cicero, Pro Publio Sestio
