Cicero Quotes

Magistratum legem esse loquentem, legem autem mutum magistratum

If you have a library in your garden, everything will be complete.

What is sweeter than to have someone with whom you may dare discuss anything as if you were communing with yourself? How could your enjoyment in times of prosperity be so great if you did not have someone whose joy in them would be equal to your own?

Vita enim mortuorum in memoria est posita vivorum.

The extreme of right is the extreme of wrong.

El cariño es muy traicionero. La justicia tiene sus exigencias, pero el cariño pugna por ella

Quam cum suavissima et maxima voce legisset, admirantibus omnibus "quanto" inquit "magis miraremini, si audissetis ipsum!"

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.

Omnia autem quae secundum naturam fiunt sunt habenda in bonis.

The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

Años poderosos les gustan los sicofantes, los iguales les estaban agradecidos por su amabilidad y los inferiores no deseaban otra cosa que servir a personas mas nobles y excepcionales.

It is to this effect: If a man should ascend alone into heaven and behold clearly the structure of the universe and the beauty of the stars, there would be no pleasure for him in the awe-inspiring sight, which would have filled him with delight if he had had someone to whom he could describe what he had seen. Thus nature, loving nothing solitary, always strives for some sort of support, and man's best support is a very dear friend.

Prima enim sequentem honestum est in secundis tertiisque consistere. (3)

Justice looks for no prize and no price; it is sought for itself, and is at once the cause and meaning of all the virtues. . . . The worst kind of injustice is to look for profit from injustice.

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