Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

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To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. [Lat., Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti.]

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One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.

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In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight of the argument. Indeed the authority of those who set out to teach is often an impediment to those who wish to learn. They cease to use their own judgment and regard as gospel whatever is put forward by their chosen teacher.

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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

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Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

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Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

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A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant.

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This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

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For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.

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He he he... Crazy? Cicero? He he he he! That's... madness.

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Reason should direct, and appetite obey.

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As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap.

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Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]

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He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

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Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home

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A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.

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The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

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He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.

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This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

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