Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Before beginning, prepare carefully.

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We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.

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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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For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

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For as the law is set over the magistrate, even so are the magistrates set over the people. And therefore, it may be truly said, "that the magistrate is a speaking law, and the law is a silent magistrate.

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The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

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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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The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

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Life is nothing without friendship.

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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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Tall oaks grow from little acorns.Testing. This is the text of an item. Testing. Origin. Testing. Quoted. Testing. Source. The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

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Like readily consorts with like.

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I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

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Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

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For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life.

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Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

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In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music.

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A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

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