1,226 Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?

In the common people there is no wisdom, no penetration, no power of judgment

So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.

Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them would prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in doing good to their fellow men