Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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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Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.

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For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms.

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No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

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There is no moment without some duty.

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There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

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Never injure a friend, even in jest.

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

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A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.

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For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

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Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

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Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.

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It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.

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To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. [Lat., Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti.]

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

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Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

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In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist.

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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

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Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.'

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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

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