Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.

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Nature abhors annihilation.

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We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.

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So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!

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The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

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

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What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

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To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.

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It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation.

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Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.

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Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.

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Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

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A man has no enemy worse than himself.

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No power is strong enough to be lasting, if it labours under the weight of fear.

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The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

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Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

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As I breathe, I hope.

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We are not born for ourselves alone.

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The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities, but coeval with that Divine Being who sees and rules both heaven and earth.

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