Cicero Browse All Authors Top 89 quotes by Cicero Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute. Cicero Let your desires be ruled by reason. Cicero The welfare of the people is the ultimate law. Cicero Anyone who has got a book collection and a garden wants for nothing. Cicero Before beginning, plan carefully. Cicero Friendship throws a greater lustre on prosperity, while it lightens adversity by sharing in its griefs and troubles. Cicero Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly. Cicero Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. Cicero The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free. Cicero The people's good is the highest law. Cicero Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine. Cicero History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity. Cicero Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. Cicero I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. Cicero The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death. Cicero If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third. Cicero Nature herself makes the wise man rich. Cicero A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation. Cicero The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong. Cicero Our thoughts are free. Cicero
