Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

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Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.

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Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.

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Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead in a low voice so that only the judges may hear, for instigators are not lacking to stir up the crowd against me, and against all the best citizens. To scorn, in the interest of the Republic, this multitude of Jews so often turbulent in the assemblies shows a singular strength of mind. The money is in the Treasury; they do not accuse us of theft; they seek to stir up hatreds.

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All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

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A community is like the ones who govern it.

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We are born poets. we become orators.

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By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.

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Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

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To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.

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A true friend is a sort of second self.

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Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

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He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

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The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

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There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal.

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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

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Life is short, but art lives forever.

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I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

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I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.]

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