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Marcus Tullius Cicero [-106--43] Roman

Rank: 11
Statesman

Age, Friendship, Wisdom, Peace, Great, Knowledge, Legal, Life, Men, Truth, War, Anger, Best, Education, Freedom, God, Hope, Money, Nature, Power, Sympathy, Trust, Beauty, Courage, Death, Experience, Faith, Fear, Food, Forgiveness, Gardening, Happiness, Home, Independence, Love, Religion, Teacher, Thankful, Veterans Day

Quote	Tags	Rank
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.	Death, Life	101
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.	Gardening	102
The safety of the people shall be the highest law.	Legal	103
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.	Thankful	104
The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.	Wisdom	105
Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.		106
What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.		107
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.	Men, Veterans Day	108
As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.		109
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.	Peace	110
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.	Great	111
Whatever you do, do with all your might.		112
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.		113
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.	Great	114
More law, less justice.	Legal	115
Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.	Food, God, Religion	116
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.	Power	117
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.	Friendship, Happiness	118
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.	Age	119
The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.	Best, Peace	120
Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.	Forgiveness, Great	121
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.		122
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.		123
A man of courage is also full of faith.	Courage, Faith	124
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.	Best	125
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.		126
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.	Friendship	201
Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.		202
A friend is, as it were, a second self.	Friendship	203
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.	Experience	204
Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.	God	205
A home without books is a body without soul.	Home	206
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.	Freedom, Independence, Power	207
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.		208
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.		209
The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.	Knowledge	210
If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.	Men	211
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.		212
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.	Legal	213
True nobility is exempt from fear.	Fear	214
This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.	Truth	215
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.		216
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.	Friendship, Sympathy	217
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.		218
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.	Age	219
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.	Truth	220
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.		221
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.		222
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.	Hope, Trust	223
Hatred is inveterate anger.	Anger	224
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.		225
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.	Men, Nature	226
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.	Truth	301
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.		302
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.	Wisdom	303
The sinews of war are infinite money.	Money, War	304
Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.	Age	305
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.	Beauty, Friendship, Love	306
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.		307
The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.		308
Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.		309
I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.	Money	310
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.	Sympathy	311
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.	Knowledge, Wisdom	312
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.		313
The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.		314
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.	Wisdom	315
Sweet is the memory of past troubles.		316
Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.		317
Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.		318
What is permissible is not always honorable.		319
No sane man will dance.		320
Laws are silent in time of war.	War	321
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.		322
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.		323
What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?		324
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.	Age	325
While there's life, there's hope.	Hope, Life	326
Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.	Age	401
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.	Knowledge	402
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.		403
I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.		404
Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.		405
Before beginning, plan carefully.		406
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.	Peace	407
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.		408
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.	Education	409
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.		410
Nature abhors annihilation.	Nature	411
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.	Trust	412
An unjust peace is better than a just war.	Peace, War	413
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.		414
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.	Education	415
What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.		416
Empire and liberty.		417
The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.		418
Honor is the reward of virtue.		419
The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.		420
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.		421
The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.		422
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.		423
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.		424
You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.		425
For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.		426
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.		501
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.		502
We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.		503
For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.		504
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.		505
The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.		506
Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?		507
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.		508
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.	Wisdom	509
In time of war the laws are silent.		510
Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.		511
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.		512
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.		513
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.		514
To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.		515
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.		516
The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.		517
That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.		518
If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.		519
One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.		520
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?		521
To live is to think.	Life	522
A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.		523
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.		524
Ability without honor is useless.		525
Like associates with like.		526
Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.	Teacher	601
A letter does not blush.		602
A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.		603
In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.		604
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.		605
Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.		606
Thrift is of great revenue.		607
Never injure a friend, even in jest.		608
People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.		609
Hatred is settled anger.	Anger	610
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.	Freedom	611
The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.		612
O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!		613
No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.		614
Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.		615
It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.		616
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.		617
The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.		618
In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.		619
The best interpreter of the law is custom.		620
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.		621
Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.		622
According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.		623
No obligation to do the impossible is binding.		624
Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.		625
We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.		626
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?		701
In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.		702
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.		703
No one can give you better advice than yourself.		704
What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.		705
All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.		706
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.		707
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.		708
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.		709
Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.		710
It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.		711
No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.		712
To some extent I liken slavery to death.		713
Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.		714
The good of the people is the greatest law.		715
A room without books is like a body without a soul.		716
Every man's reputation proceeds from those of his own household.		717

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