Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.

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A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

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

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Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

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The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

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Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

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Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.

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I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

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Probability is the very guide of life.

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Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.

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Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.

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The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

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He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

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He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.

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Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

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Man's best support is a very dear friend.

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Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

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Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

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This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

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