Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

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Tomorrow will give us something to think about

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

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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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As I breathe, I hope.

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No one has leave to sin.

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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

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I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

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Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

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Friends are proved by adversity.

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

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The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.

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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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He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.

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In the approach to virtue there are many steps.

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True nobility is exempt from fear.

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It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

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There is no castle so strong that it cannot be overthrown by money.

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Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity.

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Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.

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