1,226 Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

Strain every nerve to gain your point.

In the approach to virtue there are many steps.

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]

You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.

We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.