Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Law Quotes , Doe Quotes

It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Mind Quotes , Able Quotes

A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Men Quotes , Joy Quotes

All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Art Quotes , Men Quotes

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

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Men Quotes , Comfort Quotes

Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Writing Quotes , Law Quotes

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Truth Quotes , Lying Quotes

Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Believe Quotes , Wish Quotes

Generosity should never exceed ability.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Generosity Quotes , Should Quotes

The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Leader Quotes , Principles Quotes

Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Real Quotes , Voice Quotes

There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Wickedness Quotes

Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Men Quotes , Wish Quotes

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Life Quotes , Happiness Quotes

I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Prophet Quotes

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

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Silly Quotes , Men Quotes

An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy).

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Men Quotes , Agreement Quotes

There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Men Quotes , Night Quotes

The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Should Quotes

Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.'

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Mean Quotes , Loss Quotes