Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.

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Nature abhors annihilation.

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

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We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.

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Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

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Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.

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Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?

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As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.

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How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!

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For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.

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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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Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity.

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Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

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What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

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If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

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Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

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I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]

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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

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But as to the affection which anyone may have for us, it is the first demand of duty that we do most for him who loves us most; but we should measure affection, not like youngsters, by the ardour of its passion, but rather by its strength and constancy.

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A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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