Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

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To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.

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Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.

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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

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He who suffers, remembers.

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Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.

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Let the punishment match the offense.

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All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

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Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.

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For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.

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No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.

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Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.

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Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

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You may never be less alone than when you are alone.

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This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods.

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What is dignity without honesty?

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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

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To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

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I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.

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The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

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