Quotes from Cicero
For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.
- Cicero
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
- Cicero
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
- Cicero
History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.
- Cicero
What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.
- Cicero
There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.
- Cicero
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Cicero
The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.
- Cicero
To the sick while there is life there is hope.
- Cicero
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
- Cicero
There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.
- Cicero
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.
- Cicero