Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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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He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

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What is dignity without honesty?

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How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

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Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

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We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

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The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.

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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

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The sinews of war are infinite money.

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The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.

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It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.

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That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]

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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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Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]

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Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

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In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

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Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water.

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No one has leave to sin.

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There are no true friends in politics.

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