Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.

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It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.

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Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.

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

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Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.

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The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

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

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I am never less alone than when alone.

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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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Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

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

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He has no worse enemy than himself.

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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 habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

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Philosophy is the true mother of science.

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Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.

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In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful

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