Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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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Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

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Let your desires be ruled by reason.

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No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

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He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.

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What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.

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The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

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All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

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There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

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Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

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I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

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There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

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Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

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Hatred is settled anger.

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The spirit is the true self.

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Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

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Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain.

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No man in his senses will dance.

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Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.

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