1,226 Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother. Thank you for my laughter. Thank you for my friend.

It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.

Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake.

Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]

Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow

The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.