Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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

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O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

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It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

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An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.

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Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

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There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

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Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

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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 in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.

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It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.

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I hate all children of precocious talent.

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The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities, but coeval with that Divine Being who sees and rules both heaven and earth.

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

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It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.

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True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions... It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.

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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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Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

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

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