Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
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If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
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You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
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There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
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What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
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Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
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No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.
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The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
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In time of war the laws are silent.
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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
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To some extent I liken slavery to death.
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Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
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Whatever you do, do with all your might.
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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
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While there's life, there's hope.
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A letter does not blush.
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Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
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Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
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Hatred is inveterate anger.
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One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.