Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

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Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

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Thrift is a great revenue.

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In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.

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Calamus fortior gladio.

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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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Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

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A letter does not blush.

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There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

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Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.

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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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Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

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More law, less justice.

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

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A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.

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He who suffers, remembers.

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All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

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War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.

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It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

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