Quotes from Cicero
Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.
- Cicero
Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
- Cicero
The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.
- Cicero
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
- Cicero
A home without books is a body without soul.
- Cicero
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
- Cicero
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
- Cicero
I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
- Cicero
Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
- Cicero
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
- Cicero
Never injure a friend, even in jest.
- Cicero
God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.
- Cicero