Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

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We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.

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A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

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The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

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Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.

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Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

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We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

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There are no true friends in politics.

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Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.

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There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.

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A community is like the ones who govern it.

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The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

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Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.

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The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

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Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood.

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Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

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The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

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The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

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I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.

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