Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The illustrious and noble ought to place before them certain rules and regulations, not less for their hours of leisure and relaxation than for those of business.

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The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

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I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.

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There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.

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Always the same thing.

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It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.

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But as to the affection which anyone may have for us, it is the first demand of duty that we do most for him who loves us most; but we should measure affection, not like youngsters, by the ardour of its passion, but rather by its strength and constancy.

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Thrift is a great revenue.

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In the approach to virtue there are many steps.

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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

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If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

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Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.

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They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.

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I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

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But if you should take the bond of goodwill out of the universe no house or city could stand, nor would even the tillage of the fields abide. If that statement is not clear, then you may understand how great is the power of friendship and of concord from a consideration of the results of enmity and disagreement. For what house is so strong, or what state so enduring that it cannot be utterly overthrown by animosities and division?

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Hatred is inveterate anger.

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All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

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Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

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Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God

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