Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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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Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]

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The forehead is the gate of the mind.

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Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.

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The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

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Be a pattern to others and then all will go well.

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To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.

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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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The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.

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Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.

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It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.

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He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

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When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

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Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow

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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

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Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

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We must be ever on the search for some persons whom we shall love and who will love us in return. If good will and affection are taken away, every joy is taken from life.

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I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.

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We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.

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