Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

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Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.

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No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god. [Lat., Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans; aut temperans, voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest.]

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All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

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Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

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By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.

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The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.

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If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.

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Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

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For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.

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Never injure a friend, even in jest.

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

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What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.

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Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

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Law stands mute in the midst of arms.

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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

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The forehead is the gate of the mind.

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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

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In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

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I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

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