Quotes By Marcus Tullius Cicero

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

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

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

The more laws, the less justice.

To live is to think.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

Ability without honor is useless.

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

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.

Empire and liberty.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

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

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.