Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

If anyone cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of feeling at all. From the enduring wonder of the heavens flows all grace and power. If anyone thinks it is mindless then he himself must be out of his mind.

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The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes.

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In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

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Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?

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An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

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The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

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In times of war, the law falls silent.

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Religion is the pious worship of God.

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I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.

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What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?

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These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.

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We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one.

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Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city.

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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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To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

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That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.

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That man is guilty of impertinence who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject of his discourse, or pays no regard to the company he is in.

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Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.

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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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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

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