Quotes from Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature abhors annihilation.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

Give me a young man in whom there is something of the old, and an old man with something of the young: guided so, a man may grow old in body, but never in mind.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

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

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

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

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

Hatred is inveterate anger.

Laws are silent in time of war.

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.

I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.

Rome, fortunately natal 'neath my consulship!

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

Nothing quite new is perfect.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

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