Quotes from Marcus Tullius Cicero

No sane man will dance.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Virtue is its own reward.

This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.

He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.

Kindness is produced by kindness.

There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.