Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.

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No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind. [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]

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"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."

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I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature.

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Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.

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Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

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Whatever you do, do with all your might.

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Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity.

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He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

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Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.

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No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.

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Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]

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For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

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While there's life, there's hope.

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There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

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Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,' is a discreditable one, and should not be admitted for a moment. We should ask from friends and do for friends only what is good.

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

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To live long, live slowly.

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The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?

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We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.

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