Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
To be ignorant of the past is to forever be a child.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
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Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
The beginnings of all things are small.
No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.
Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
A war is never undertaken by the ideal State, except in defense of its honor or its safety.
No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.
While there's life, there's hope.
To some extent I liken slavery to death.
Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
We are not born for ourselves alone.
The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
The good of the people is the greatest law.
Let the punishment match the offense.
I am never less alone than when alone.
Law stands mute in the midst of arms.
Variant: In a time of war, the law falls silent.
