It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. .… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share
Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first;… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share
Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share
Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share
The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share
Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share
History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share
The Jews belong to a dark and repulsive force. One knows how numerous this clique is, how they stick together and what power they… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share
