Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.

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As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

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We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.

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Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

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Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

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Studies are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad; they are companions by night, and in travel, and in the country.

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I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.

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There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde; But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe; The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe.

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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree!

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A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

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For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot die wretchedly.

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Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.

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Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

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No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.

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Whatever you do, do with all your might.

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Nature has inclined us to love men.

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

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