Marcus Tullius Cicero

Statesman

Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman statesman, lawyer, and philosopher of the late Roman Republic. He is known for his orations, political writings, and influence on Latin prose.

Books by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Speeches
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De officiis
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Cato maior de senectute
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Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
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For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.
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The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.
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What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
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For walk where we will, we tread upon some story.
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Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. (To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.)
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But if I am wrong in thinking the human soul immortal, I am glad to be wrong; nor will I allow the mistake which gives me so much pleasure to be wrested from me as long as I live.
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Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!
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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
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In times of war, the law falls s
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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief
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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
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My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything bad which Nature makes inevitable.
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I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.
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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.
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