Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

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He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.

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To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.

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Hatred is settled anger.

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For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

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The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.

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Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

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No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

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Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

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Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

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Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.

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All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

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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.

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For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than #‎ agriculture

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When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

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No sober person dances.

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What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.

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There is no moment without some duty.

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