Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

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Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?

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Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain.

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Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.

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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.

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Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

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There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.

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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

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I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

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The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.

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Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]

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Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

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He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

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For as the law is set over the magistrate, even so are the magistrates set over the people. And therefore, it may be truly said, "that the magistrate is a speaking law, and the law is a silent magistrate.

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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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Time is the herald of truth.

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes.

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All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

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Man's best support is a very dear friend.

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There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.

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