Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

On the subject of the nature of the gods, the first question is Do the gods exist or do the not? It is difficult you may say to deny that they exist. I would agree if we were arguing the matter in a public assembly, but in a private discussion of this kind, it is perfectly easy to do so.

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

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The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.

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Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed.

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If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

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Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.

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The sinews of war are infinite money.

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The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

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The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

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What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

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A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

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So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.

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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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Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

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Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

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It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

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Friends, though absent, are still present.

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The aim of justice is to give everyone his due.

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Peace is freedom in tranquility.

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Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

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