Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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

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In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.

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Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.

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No one has leave to sin.

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Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

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They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with blond hair. I would not be in the least bit surprised if these people would not some day become deadly to the human race.

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. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed.

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Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

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Endless money forms the sinews of war. [Lat., Nervi belli pecunia infinita.]

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What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

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We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.

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An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home. [Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.]

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Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home

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The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

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

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God

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A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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