Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

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I am never less alone than when alone.

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Cicero is dead! Cicero is born! The laughter has filled me, filled me so very completely. I am the laughter. I am the jester. The soul that has served as my constant companion for so long has breached the veil of the Void finally and forever. It is now in me. It is me. The world has seen the last of Cicero the man. Behold Cicero, Fool of Hearts - laughter incarnate!

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The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

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Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

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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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I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]

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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

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Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

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It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

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

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This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.

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Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

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A true friend is a sort of second self.

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Economy is a great revenue. [Lat., Magnum vectigal est parsimonia.]

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For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.

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How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!

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I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

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It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.

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