Quotes from Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God

Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

Old age by nature is rather talkative.

Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.

Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.

Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]

What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.

Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?

Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]

Patria est communis omnium parens. Our country is the common parent of all.

The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

Peace is freedom in tranquility.

A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.

Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

O philosophy, you leader of life.

Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.

Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.