Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

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In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

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Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

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The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.

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Friends, though absent, are still present.

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

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Freedom is participation in power.

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The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.

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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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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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How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

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It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

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A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

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For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very often his countenance, are deceitful, and his speech is most commonly a lie.

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Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.

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Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

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There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover the infinity of things, the immensity of Nature, the heavens, the earth, and the seas; this is that branch which has taught us religion, moderation, magnanimity, and that has rescued the soul from obscurity; to make her see all things above and below, first and last, and between both; it is this that furnishes us wherewith to live well and happily, and guides us to pass our lives without displeasure and without offence.

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They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.

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Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)

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The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]

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