Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.

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Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.

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Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.

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A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

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War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]

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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

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It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

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There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes.

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Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

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The works of nature must all be accounted good.

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If anyone cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of feeling at all. From the enduring wonder of the heavens flows all grace and power. If anyone thinks it is mindless then he himself must be out of his mind.

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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God

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I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

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It is pleasant to recall past troubles.

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

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To-morrow will give some food for thought.

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In times of war, the law falls silent.

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You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.

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It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

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