Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

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

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

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.

Hatred is inveterate anger.

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

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.