Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

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My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

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I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.

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So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.

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Men of different tastes have different pursuits.

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To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]

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In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.

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He who suffers, remembers.

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Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity.

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True nobility is exempt from fear.

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Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?

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If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

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History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.

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Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.

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You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.

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No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

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The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.

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Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water.

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Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

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