Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

It is necessary for a Senator to be thoroughly acquainted with the constitution; and this is a knowledge of the most extensive nature; a matter of science, of diligence, of reflection, without which no Senator can possibly be fit for his office.

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Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.

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In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it.

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The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

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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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Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.

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In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

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Leisure with dignity.

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To freemen, threats are impotent.

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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

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Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]

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Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

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Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good.

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In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.

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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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The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.

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For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.

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The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

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If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.

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As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.

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