Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

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That he who hath the loan of money has not repaid it, and he who has repaid has not the loan; but he who has acknowledged a kindness has it still, and he who has a feeling of it has requited it.

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

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Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.

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It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

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We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means.

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It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.

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Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?

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When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

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If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

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Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.

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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

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

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Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

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The spirit is the true self.

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Friends, though absent, are still present.

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History is the teacher of life

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We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.

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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.

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