Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

"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."

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"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."

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

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"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured."

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"Hatred is settled anger."

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"Hatred is inveterate anger."

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

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

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"The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct."

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"True nobility is exempt from fear."

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"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."

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"Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law."

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

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

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"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."

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

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"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."

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

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

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"Brevity is a great charm of eloquence."

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

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"I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity."

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"Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom."

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"To live is to think."

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"Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage."

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

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"Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature."

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"The sinews of war are infinite money."

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"The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil."

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"Peace is liberty in tranquillity."

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

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"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."

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"It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness."

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"Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty."

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

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"So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge."

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"Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself."

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"Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind."

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

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"Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself."

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"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil."

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"Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body."

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"Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."

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

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"More law, less justice."

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"Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense."

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"Nature abhors annihilation."

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