It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first;… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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