Quotes from Marcus Tullius Cicero

What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.

We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.

Every man's reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

By doubting we come at truth.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

Through doubt we arrive at the truth.

If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

Time is the herald of truth.

We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.

Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.

History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.

It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'

Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.

...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life.