So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition! — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
But if you should take the bond of goodwill out of the universe no house or city could stand, nor would even… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured; but when we obtain… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat., Bellum… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
On the subject of the nature of the gods, the first question is Do the gods exist or do the not? It… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Scurrility has no object in view but incivility; if it is uttered from feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse; if it… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead in a low voice… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
For as the law is set over the magistrate, even so are the magistrates set over the people. And therefore, it may… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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 Image
Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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 Image
The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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 Image