Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief

In times of war, the law falls s

Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. (To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.)

For walk where we will, we tread upon some story.

What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.

The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer, " he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.

Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice

There are no snares more dangerous than those which lurk under the guise of duty or the name of relationship.

Nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere.(No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.)

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

In time of war the laws are silent.

Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

To live is to think.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.