Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
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In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.
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Hatred is settled anger.
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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
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No obligation to do the impossible is binding.
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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
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Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
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The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
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The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.
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This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
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Every man's reputation proceeds from those of his own household.
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The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
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Empire and liberty.
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What is permissible is not always honorable.
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Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
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We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.