Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music.

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O philosophy, you leader of life.

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Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones.

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It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

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Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

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We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.

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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

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Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

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No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

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The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.

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There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside. Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior.

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Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city.

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For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

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It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

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

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. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed.

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Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

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No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

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