Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

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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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No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.

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Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

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The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

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To live long, live slowly.

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A letter does not blush.

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For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

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Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

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A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.

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Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

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A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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Let your desires be ruled by reason.

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Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.

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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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Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).

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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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Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

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