Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

"To live is to think."

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."

"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living."

"Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error."

"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."

"The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk."

"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."

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

"Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow."

"The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend."

"More law, less justice."

"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty."

"A home without books is a body without soul."

"The sinews of war are infinite money."

"While there's life, there's hope."

"The safety of the people shall be the highest law."

"It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own."

"A friend is, as it were, a second self."

"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child."

"It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment."

"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."

"There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it."

"The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory."

"The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust."

"A man of courage is also full of faith."

"What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes."

"I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know."

"Honor is the reward of virtue."

"An unjust peace is better than a just war."