Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

There is no thing which God cannot accomplish.

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Opinionum enim commenta delet dies; naturæ judicia confirmat. Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality.

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He is rich who wishes no more than he has.

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There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

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

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

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He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.

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To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]

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The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

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Work makes a callus against grief.

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The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.

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To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

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For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.

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It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.

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Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

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Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

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From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world.

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We are born poets. we become orators.

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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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Let the soldier yield to the civilian.

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