Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

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

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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

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Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

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He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

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When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

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O tempora! O mores! O what times (are these)! what morals!

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Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.

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As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.

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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

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Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

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Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.

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In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

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Man's life is ruled by fortune, not by wisdom.

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There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

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It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.

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We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish.

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