Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Friends are proved by adversity.

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Calamus fortior gladio.

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If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.

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Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

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The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

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There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

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Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

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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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I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method. [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]

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The remembrance of past misery is sweet.

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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

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Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

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Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.

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So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!

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If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.

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When war is raging the laws are dumb.

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A s laws multiply, injustice increases.

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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

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By doubting we come at truth.

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A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

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