Quotes from Marcus Tullius Cicero

Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.

Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.

I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

All great men are partially inspired.

He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.