71 result(s) for Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes.
"Silent enim leges inter arma."
"The more laws, the less justice."
"In times of war, the law falls silent."
"The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity, and the brute by instinct."
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."
"We are bound by the laws and customs of our society, and it is by them alone that our mutual differences are judged."
"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life."
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"It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and forget his own."
"To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches."
"Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do."
"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."
"Freedom is a possession of inestimable value."
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
"The swords of the wicked will become their own downfall."
"Freedom is participation in power."
"The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes."
"In time of war, the laws are silent."
"Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat."
"Politicians are not born; they are excreted."
"As you have sown so shall you reap."
"In time of war, the laws fall silent."
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"Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude."
"For what can be more noble than to slay one's own fears?"
"A happy life consists in tranquility of mind."
"There is nothing so absurd that it has not been said by some philosopher."
"The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal."
"Wisdom is never more prized than when it is wasted wantonly on others."
"True law is right reason in agreement with nature."
"Advice is judged by results, not by intentions."
"The safety of the people shall be the highest law."
"Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error."
"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt."
"No one can give you better advice than yourself."
"The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend."
"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?"
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"Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth."
"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started."
"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
"It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness."
"It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own."
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others."
"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil."
"The life given us by nature is short, but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal."
"The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions."
"Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator."
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."
"The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked."
"I criticize by creation, not by finding fault."
"Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered."
"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book."
"The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude."
"The arms of the wicked can be broken by the strength of the righteous."
"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living."
"While there's life, there's hope."
"The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory."
"Friendship makes prosperity brighter and lightens adversity by sharing its joy and sadness."
"The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct."
"True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting."
"What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes."
"The sinews of war are infinite money."
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others."
"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child."
"Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature."
"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it."
"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."
"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 tranquility, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death."
"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation."
"Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and given him triumphal processions."
"Virtue is harmony."
"The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends."
"Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense."
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