Marcus Tullius Cicero

Quotes

• “What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to yo...”
• “O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been...”
• “When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and r...”
• “The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and tryin...”
• “What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the...”
• “For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and di...”
• “Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”
• “The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.”
• “Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.”
• “The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.”
• “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
• “To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.”
• “Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.”
• “The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.”
• “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
• “I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.”
• “A friend is, as it were, a second self.”
• “While there's life, there's hope.”