Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.

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We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.

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Friends are proved by adversity.

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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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I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature.

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That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

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To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

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To-morrow will give some food for thought.

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A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.

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Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.

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Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.

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The whole glory of virtue resides in activity.

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Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

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A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant.

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Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

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Falsehoods border on truths.

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He has no worse enemy than himself.

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A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.

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No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.

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

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