Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
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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.
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The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
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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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To live is to think.
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Empire and liberty.
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Every man's reputation proceeds from those of his own household.
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In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.
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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
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The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
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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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No obligation to do the impossible is binding.
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Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
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You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
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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.
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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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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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No one can give you better advice than yourself.
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A friend is, as it were, a second self.