Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

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Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.

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Religion is the pious worship of God.

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It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

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The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

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That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!

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There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.

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There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

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We all are imbued with the love of praise.

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Let the soldier yield to the civilian.

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Certain signs precede certain events.

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An ancient custom obtains force of nature.

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When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.

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Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

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War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.

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Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

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There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest.

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Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

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There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

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To live long, live slowly.

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