Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Every man's friend is no man's friend.

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Kindness is produced by kindness.

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I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

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Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

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Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water.

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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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The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.

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Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

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Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

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Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.

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So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!

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Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

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The sinews of war are infinite money.

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For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.

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There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

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In times of war, the law falls silent.

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For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.

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We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.

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All soils are not fertile.

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Can you also, Lucullus, affirm that there is any power united with wisdom and prudence which has made, or, to use your own expression, manufactured man? What sort of a manufacture is that? Where is it exercised? when? why? how?

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