Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

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I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.

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

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The popular breeze - Aura popularis

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If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

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To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.

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To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]

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There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.

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Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.

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

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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

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We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.

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I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

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The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

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What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

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The beginnings of all things are small.

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No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

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To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.

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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

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Ability without honor is useless.

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