Source: De Re Publica
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Famous Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
“If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)
“The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.”
Source: Cicero in twenty-nine volumes
Source: Cicero in twenty-nine volumes
“It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.”
“In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.”
“The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.”
Source: De Officiis Or on Duties on Obligations
“There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.”
“Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.”
Source: Cicero's Three Books Of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate
“Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good.”
Source: Cicero in twenty-nine volumes
“The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.”
“No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.”
“The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.”
“Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.”
Source: Tusculan Disputations ...
“Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood.”
“For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.”
“The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.”
Source: Cicero
“War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.”
“In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.”
“If wisdom be attainable, let us not only win but enjoy it.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)