Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]

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Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year.

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This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods.

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Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

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An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.

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In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful

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There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.

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The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.

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Unraveling the web of Penelope.

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Laws are silent in time of war.

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The remembrance of past misery is sweet.

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If wisdom be attainable, let us not only win but enjoy it.

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It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.

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This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

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There is no thing which God cannot accomplish.

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It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

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That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

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All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

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Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.

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Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

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