Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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

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Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

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Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

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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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To live long, live slowly.

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It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

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Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.

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Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

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What is dignity without honesty?

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There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

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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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Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

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In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

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Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.

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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

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In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.

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The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

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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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The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong

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