Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,' is a… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight… — 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
