Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

In the approach to virtue there are many steps.

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Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

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

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Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

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Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]

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Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good.

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Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood.

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There are no true friends in politics.

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When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

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Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

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If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

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Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

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A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

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For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.

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. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed.

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They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with blond hair. I would not be in the least bit surprised if these people would not some day become deadly to the human race.

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We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.

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What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

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