Marcus Tullius Cicero

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time...

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The aim of justice is to give everyone his due.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The foundation of justice is good faith.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Need to sharpen my blade. Make it shiny, gleamy, and oh, so... deadly.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods, than in giving health to men.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let us not go over the old ground but rather prepare for what is to come.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The law is silent during war. [Lat., Silent leges inter arma.]

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A man has no enemy worse than himself.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The works of nature must all be accounted good.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The welfare of the people is the ultimate law

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is not a moment without some duty.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The remembrance of past misery is sweet.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero