Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Book Quotes , Giving Quotes

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Pain Quotes , Philosophical Quotes

Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Age Quotes

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Love Quotes , Life Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Stars Quotes , Thinking Quotes

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Time Quotes , Age Quotes

The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Mind Quotes , Body Quotes

As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Men Quotes , Grace Quotes

Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Hate Quotes , Winning Quotes

Falsehoods border on truths.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Borders Quotes

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Life Quotes , Military Quotes

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Children Quotes , Teaching Quotes

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Men Quotes

I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.]

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Mind Quotes

It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Grief Quotes , Hair Quotes

In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Pleasure Quotes , Pleasures Of Life Quotes

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Football Quotes , Inspirational Sports Quotes

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Men Quotes , Errors Quotes

The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion. . . ."

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Stars Quotes , Moon Quotes

The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Rome Quotes , Land Quotes