Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

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I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]

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There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher.

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There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal.

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Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you, as they have done already.

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It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.

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The beginnings of all things are small.

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A true friend is a sort of second self.

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I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

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There is no life without friendship

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Generosity should never exceed ability.

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Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.

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But if you should take the bond of goodwill out of the universe no house or city could stand, nor would even the tillage of the fields abide. If that statement is not clear, then you may understand how great is the power of friendship and of concord from a consideration of the results of enmity and disagreement. For what house is so strong, or what state so enduring that it cannot be utterly overthrown by animosities and division?

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To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

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War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]

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For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot die wretchedly.

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In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

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No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god. [Lat., Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans; aut temperans, voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest.]

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

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The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.

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