Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.

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Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. [Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis elui potest.]

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Reason should direct, and appetite obey.

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For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than #‎ agriculture

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The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

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This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

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Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

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I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.

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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

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Cicero is dead! Cicero is born! The laughter has filled me, filled me so very completely. I am the laughter. I am the jester. The soul that has served as my constant companion for so long has breached the veil of the Void finally and forever. It is now in me. It is me. The world has seen the last of Cicero the man. Behold Cicero, Fool of Hearts - laughter incarnate!

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It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to find out and persevere in the truth. On the other hand, to be imposed upon, to mistake, to falter, and to be deceived, is as ungraceful as to rave or to be insane.

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According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

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In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

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Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

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Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

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It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.

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It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation.

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For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?

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The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

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