Advertisements
Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
Advertisements
Advertisements
Advertisements
Advertisements
Friendship Quotes
Love Quotes
Life Quotes
Funny Quotes
Motivational Quotes
Inspirational Quotes
Advertisements
Text Quotes
The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth (Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes)
In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment (Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes)
In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others (Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes)
Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves (Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes)
Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age (Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes)
No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds (Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes)
Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered (Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes)
Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind (Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes)
In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names (Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes)
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 (Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes)
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 (Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes)
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 (Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes)
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability (Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes)
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct (Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes)
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just (Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes)
We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members (Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes)
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk (Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes)
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words (Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes)
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge (Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes)
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live (Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes)
It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal (Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes)
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment (Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes)
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power (Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes)
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 (Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes)
If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live (Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes)
I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors (Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes)
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability (Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes)
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief (Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes)
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law (Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes)
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 (Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes)