Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist.

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What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?

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If anyone cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of feeling at all. From the enduring wonder of the heavens flows all grace and power. If anyone thinks it is mindless then he himself must be out of his mind.

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

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Hmm... That's like telling you about the cold of space, or terror of midnight. Sithis is all those things. He is... the Void.

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We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.

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Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.

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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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Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.

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Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory of our empire, the dignity of our name, the customs of our ancestors.

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The first bond of society is marriage.

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What is dignity without honesty?

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There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

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If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.

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It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.

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Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

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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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Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

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No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

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But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?

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