Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

True nobility is exempt from fear.

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What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

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What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.

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A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.

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Calamus fortior gladio.

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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

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Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

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Let the soldier yield to the civilian.

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It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

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Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.

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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

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Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water.

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I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.

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Friends are proved by adversity.

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Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

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That man is guilty of impertinence who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject of his discourse, or pays no regard to the company he is in.

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What is permissible is not always honorable.

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