Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]

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Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.

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Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

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Hunger is the best sauce.

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When war is raging the laws are dumb.

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Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

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Before beginning, prepare carefully.

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All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

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If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

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This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.

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No sober person dances.

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"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."

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The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.

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If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.

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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

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

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Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

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Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

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The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]

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