1,226 Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

If wisdom be attainable, let us not only win but enjoy it.

Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed.

For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.

I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.

When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?