Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes (428 Quotes)

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Who stands to gain.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

Old age has been charged with being insensible to pleasure and to enjoyments arising from the gratification of the senses, a most blessed and heavenly effect, truly, if it eases us of what in youth was the sorest plague of life

Before beginning, plan carefully.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

We are slaves of the law so that we may be able to be free. Legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus.

We must make a personal attack when there is no argumentative basis for our speech.

He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.

It is a brief period of life that is granted us by nature, but the memory of a well-spent life never dies.

There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal.

Friends, though absent, are still present.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Laws are silent in the midst of arms.

One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.

A careful physician ... before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

My precept to all who build is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

There are many degrees in excellence. In virtute sunt multi ascensus.

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.

No grief is so acute but that time ameliorates it.

What is more agreeable than ones home.

Nothing quite new is perfect.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

No man is so old as to think he can't live one more year

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

From the moment. Ex tempore.

Romulus was not a king of barbarians, was he Num barbarorum Romulus rex fuit.

The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

When they remain silent, they cry out. Cum tacent clamant (In Catilinam I)

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

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

I am really confident in the team this year. We have so much depth. Saying we will finish in the top 10 as a team might even be a little conservative. Individually, I've finished 15th, 16th, and 18th at Nationals I would really like to break the top 10,

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in doing good to their fellowmen.

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.