Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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.
Empire and liberty.
Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.
For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
Hatred is inveterate anger.
Hatred is settled anger.
Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
