It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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 it were, to be sighting land, and to be coming to port at last after a long voyage.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Laws are silent in time of war.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero