Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

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There is not a moment without some duty.

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Be a pattern to others and then all will go well.

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

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Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

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We are not born for ourselves alone.

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Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

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Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.

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Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself. [Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]

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Work makes a callus against grief.

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The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.

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We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means.

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The Jews belong to a dark and repulsive force. One knows how numerous this clique is, how they stick together and what power they exercise through their unions. They are a nation of rascals and deceivers.

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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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What is dignity without honesty?

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To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

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For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?

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One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.

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Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.

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It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

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