Quotes Marcus Tullius Cicero

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, b...

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to ...

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act....

One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul ...

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak....

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredit...

Peace is liberty in tranquillity....

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is....

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age....

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn...

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom....

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation....

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well ...

Sweet is the memory of past troubles....

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shr...

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of...

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to tho...

The best interpreter of the law is custom....

The budget should be balanced. Public debt should be reduced...

The countenance is the portrait of the mind, the eyes are it...

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes ma...

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, ou...

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

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true....

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and e...