Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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

Life is nothing without friendship.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.

A home without books is a body without soul.

The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

The foundation of justice is good faith.

The welfare of the people is the ultimate law

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator

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

True nobility is exempt from fear.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence

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