Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

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Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

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The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

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Like readily consorts with like.

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Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

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What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?

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The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.

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Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man.

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Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.

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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

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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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We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

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The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

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There is in fact a true law namely right reason, which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men and is unchangeable and eternal. ... It will not lay down one rule at Rome and another at Athens, nor will it be one rule today and another tomorrow. But there will be one law eternal and unchangeable binding all times and upon all peoples.

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All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

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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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Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

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The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.

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For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

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