Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.

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No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.

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In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.

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A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]

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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.

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

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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

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To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

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The spirit is the true self.

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It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.

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The whole glory of virtue resides in activity.

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A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

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

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Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?

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There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.

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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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It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.

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I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home. [Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]

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It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

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Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

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