Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

While there's life, there's hope.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

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

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

The more laws, the less justice.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

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

Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

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

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.