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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Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you, as they have done already.

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There were poets before Homer.

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Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.

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Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

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Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good.

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For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?

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This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

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Old age by nature is rather talkative.

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The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

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Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.

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Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood.

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Through doubt we arrive at the truth.

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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

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We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.

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Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest.

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The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.

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It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

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Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.

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