Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

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If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

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We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

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The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

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Hmm... That's like telling you about the cold of space, or terror of midnight. Sithis is all those things. He is... the Void.

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

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A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

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The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?

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We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.

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Man must suffer to be wise.

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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 friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.

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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

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No man in his senses will dance.

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The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.

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Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.

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The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

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That he who hath the loan of money has not repaid it, and he who has repaid has not the loan; but he who has acknowledged a kindness has it still, and he who has a feeling of it has requited it.

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Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.

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To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

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