Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.

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The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

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

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A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.

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It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

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Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.

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The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

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Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good.

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It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to find out and persevere in the truth. On the other hand, to be imposed upon, to mistake, to falter, and to be deceived, is as ungraceful as to rave or to be insane.

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A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

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It is pleasant to recall past troubles.

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The forehead is the gate of the mind.

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Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]

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It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.

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In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

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Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]

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Like readily consorts with like.

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Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

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