Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

But if you should take the bond of goodwill out of the universe no house or city could stand, nor would even the tillage of the fields abide. If that statement is not clear, then you may understand how great is the power of friendship and of concord from a consideration of the results of enmity and disagreement. For what house is so strong, or what state so enduring that it cannot be utterly overthrown by animosities and division?

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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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It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

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We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

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It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.

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There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

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Diligence which, as it avails in all things, is also of the utmost moment in pleading causes. Diligence is to be particularly cultivated by us; it is to be constantly exerted; it is capable of effecting almost everything.

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Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

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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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Freedom is participation in power.

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To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.

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Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain.

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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

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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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There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

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A letter does not blush.

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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

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Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.

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Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.

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The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.

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