Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

A man has no enemy worse than himself.

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A letter does not blush.

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Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?

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The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.

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Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

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What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

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Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

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Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.

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Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.

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Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.

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An ancient custom obtains force of nature.

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The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.

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To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

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The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.

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All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

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They condemn what they do not understand.

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Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.

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