Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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

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There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal.

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Inhumanity is harmful in every age. - Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est

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We are born poets. we become orators.

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

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If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries. [Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.]

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A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

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For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

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There is no thing which God cannot accomplish.

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Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.

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A letter does not blush.

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

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The Jews belong to a dark and repulsive force. One knows how numerous this clique is, how they stick together and what power they exercise through their unions. They are a nation of rascals and deceivers.

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Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

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Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

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To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.

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To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]

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All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

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True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions... It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.

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Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.

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