Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

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Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.

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Scurrility has no object in view but incivility; if it is uttered from feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse; if it is spoken in a joking manner, it may be considered raillery.

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Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

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I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home. [Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]

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It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

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In the approach to virtue there are many steps.

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The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.

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Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.

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To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

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We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

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It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

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Let the soldier yield to the civilian.

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]

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I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.

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It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

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I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead. [Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.]

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Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

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Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

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