Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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

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For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.

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There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.

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If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

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Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

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What is dignity without honesty?

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I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

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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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Friends, though absent, are still present.

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He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.

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To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business.

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No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.

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The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion. . . ."

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Men of different tastes have different pursuits.

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The first bond of society is marriage.

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Justice renders to every one his due.

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What is more agreeable than one's home?

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For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

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The popular breeze - Aura popularis

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