Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.

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To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Lat., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]

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Hatred is a settled anger.

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Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]

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Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

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The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

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Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.

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I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

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Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.

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Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.

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As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.

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A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.

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A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

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If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

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It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

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For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

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Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.

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They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.

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Friends are proved by adversity.

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Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

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