Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.

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I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

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The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

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There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

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Kindness is produced by kindness.

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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]

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No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]

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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

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No sober person dances.

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I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature.

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Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

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Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

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Hunger is the best sauce.

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No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

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There is in fact a true law namely right reason, which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men and is unchangeable and eternal. ... It will not lay down one rule at Rome and another at Athens, nor will it be one rule today and another tomorrow. But there will be one law eternal and unchangeable binding all times and upon all peoples.

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Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

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Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

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