Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

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If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

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Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

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A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

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Leisure with dignity.

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No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

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The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.

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I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.

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Tomorrow will give us something to think about

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Man's life is ruled by fortune, not by wisdom.

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True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.

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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God

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Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

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That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

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For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.

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The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

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

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The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.

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