Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

But as to the affection which anyone may have for us, it is the first demand of duty that we do most for him who loves us most; but we should measure affection, not like youngsters, by the ardour of its passion, but rather by its strength and constancy.

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The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

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Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.

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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

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This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods.

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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

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

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He he he... Crazy? Cicero? He he he he! That's... madness.

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Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.

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No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind. [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]

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

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Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

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Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.

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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

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Friends are proved by adversity.

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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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It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.

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Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones.

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The forehead is the gate of the mind.

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Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.

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