Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

“Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything had which nature makes inevitable.”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Old Age

topic:happiness age

“But the foundation of justice is good faith, that is, steadfastness and truth in promises and agreements.”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties

topic:truth justice

“It is again a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but remembering and recalling them.”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Old Age

topic:knowledge children

“Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties

topic:freedom

“In the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self.”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Friendship

topic:self friendship

“what a real friend is will never be revealed; for he is, as it were, a second self.”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Friendship

topic:self friendship

“We may then lay down this rule of friendship—neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong.”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Friendship

topic:friendship wrong

“For the function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil; whereas, inasmuch as all things morally wrong are evil, trickery prefers the evil to the good.”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties

topic:wisdom good evil

“But it is essential to every inquiry about duty that we keep before our eyes how far superior man is by nature to cattle and other beasts: they have no thought except for sensual pleasure and this they are impelled by every instinct to seek;”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties

topic:man

“Again, just as apples when unripe are torn from trees, but when ripe and mellow drop down, so it is violence that takes life from young men, ripeness from old. This ripeness is so delightful to me, that, as I approach nearer to death, I seem as...”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Old Age

topic:age violence

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