Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

To-morrow will give some food for thought.

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Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.

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Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.

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The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

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Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

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The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.

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The precept, "Know yourself," was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind; but likewise that we might understand our own worth.

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We all are imbued with the love of praise.

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A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.

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Let the soldier yield to the civilian.

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In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated by a combination of rights. And by this definition it appears that a multitude of men may be just as tyrannical as a single despot and indeed this is the most odious of all tyrannies, since no monster can be more barbarous than the mob, which assumes the name and mask of the people.

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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione quidem violari fas fuit.]

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He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

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Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

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It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.

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It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

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He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.

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He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.

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Generosity should never exceed ability.

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