Cicero Quotes

Honor is the reward of virtue.

No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.

The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.

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

The popular breeze - Aura popularis

Let reason govern desire.

What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.

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.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.

To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. [Lat., Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti.]

He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.

It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity.

The freedom of poetic license.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.

Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.

Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest.

Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.

The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.

The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.

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

Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?

There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.

Always the same thing.

Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city.

The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.

All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

The foundation of justice is good faith.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.

It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.

For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than #‎ agriculture

What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.

Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.

Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.