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
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Famous Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
“There is nothing which God cannot do. [Lat., Nihil est quod deus efficere non possit.]”
“This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.”
Source: Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate
“Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]”
“What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.”
“What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)
“Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.”
“Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]”
“Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]”
“Old age is by nature rather talkative.”
Source: 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. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers
“Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.”
“For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.”
“We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.”
“When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.”
“Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.”
“The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.”
“We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means.”
“It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.”
Source: The Academic Questions: Treatise De Finibus and Tusculan Disputations of M. R. Cicero, with a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero