Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated by a combination of rights. And by this definition it appears that a multitude of men may be just as tyrannical as a single despot and indeed this is the most odious of all tyrannies, since no monster can be more barbarous than the mob, which assumes the name and mask of the people.

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It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

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Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

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It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.

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What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

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Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.

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It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.

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There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

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It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.

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Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?

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The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

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

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The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

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Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones.

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War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]

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In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.

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Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.

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Economy is a great revenue. [Lat., Magnum vectigal est parsimonia.]

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We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.

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A letter does not blush.

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