Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.

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The human mind ever longs for occupation.

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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.

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Law stands mute in the midst of arms.

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The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.

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While there's life, there's hope.

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The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

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Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

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The works of nature must all be accounted good.

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No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

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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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There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.

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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

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All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

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As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

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We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.

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

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The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.

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Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

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The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

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