1,226 Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]

For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.

Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons lives from violence of any and every kind by all means within their power.

Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

The countenance is the portrait of the mind, the eyes are its informers

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

Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God

Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge.

We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish.