Quotes from Cicero
The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
- Cicero
We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.
- Cicero
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
- Cicero
Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.
- Cicero
Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.
- Cicero
Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.
- Cicero
Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.
- Cicero
Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober.
- Cicero
Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.
- Cicero
Man must suffer to be wise.
- Cicero
We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.
- Cicero
Men of different tastes have different pursuits.
- Cicero