Marcus Tullius Cicero quotes

“In time of war the laws are silent. ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“To some extent I liken slavery to death.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The false is nothing but an imitation of the true. ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The best interpreter of the law is custom. ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable. ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings. ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage. ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“What is permissible is not always honorable.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero