Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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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Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

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What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.

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The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

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I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.

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The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

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The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

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Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

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No sane man will dance.

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Men of different tastes have different pursuits.

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That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!

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Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

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No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]

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Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.

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Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.

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Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

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When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

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