Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Tomorrow will give us something to think about

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There were poets before Homer.

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The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

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Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

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If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

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What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.

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Let reason govern desire.

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No man in his senses will dance.

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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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Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

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For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.

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An ancient custom obtains force of nature.

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Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

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Religion is the pious worship of God.

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No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

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He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.

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The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.

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The works of nature must all be accounted good.

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Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

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