Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Men of different tastes have different pursuits.

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

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Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

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Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

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What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.

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Work makes a callus against grief.

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To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. [Lat., Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti.]

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Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. [Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis elui potest.]

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I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]

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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

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Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]

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The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.

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Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?

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The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

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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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In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist.

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There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

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Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

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A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes.

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