Marcus T Cicero Quotes

#1. The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#3. For as I like a man in whom there is something of the old, so I like a man in whom there is something of the young; and he who follows this maxim, in body will possibly be an old man but he will never be an old man in mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#4. No sober person dances.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#5. Friends are proved by adversity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#6. It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#7. A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#8. No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#9. The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#10. The counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#11. Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#13. Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#14. For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#15. Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#16. Inhumanity is harmful in every age. - Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#17. 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.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#19. To live long it is necessary to live slowly.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#20. It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#21. Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#22. Life is nothing without friendship.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#23. There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24. Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#25. The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#26. There is a difference between justice and consideration in one's relations to one's fellow men. It is the function of justice not to do wrong to one's fellow men of considerateness, not to wound their feelings.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#27. Salus populi suprema est lex [the good of the people is the chief law].

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#28. The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#29. When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#30. The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.
[Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem affert loci.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#31. Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#32. The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#33. It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#34. Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#35. Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#36. It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#37. Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#38. We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#39. 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?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#40. There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#41. I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#42. This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#43. I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#44. There is also a tradition about Socrates. He liked walking, it is recorded, until a late hour of the evening, and when someone asked him why he did this he said he was trying to work up an appetite for his dinner.

Marcus Tullius Cicero