1,226 Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.

No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home

Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.

It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.

Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.