Famous Quotes

Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

• That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.
• The best interpreter of the law is custom.
• The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
• The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
• The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
• The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
• The more laws, the less justice.
• The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
• The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
• 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.
• The sinews of war are infinite money.
• The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
• The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
• There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
• 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.
• Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
• Thrift is of great revenue.
• Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
• To some extent I liken slavery to death.
• True nobility is exempt from fear.