Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

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Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

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Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

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Like associates with like.

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Justice renders to every one his due.

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To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.

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It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.

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Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

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It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.

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Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

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A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]

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We make allowance for necessity.

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Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.

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When war is raging the laws are dumb.

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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

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Generosity should never exceed ability.

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Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion.

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Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]

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Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

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The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.

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