Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

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Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)

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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

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The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

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No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.

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The freedom of poetic license.

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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

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When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.

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O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]

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What is more agreeable than one's home?

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That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]

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Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione quidem violari fas fuit.]

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A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.

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It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.

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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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Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

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A true friend is a sort of second self.

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A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

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