Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.

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In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

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Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

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Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

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There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.

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He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.

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

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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

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So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.

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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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No one has leave to sin.

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Always the same thing.

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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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Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

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In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

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No sane man will dance.

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True nobility is exempt from fear.

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That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!

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Though laughter is allowable, a horse-laugh is abominable.

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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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