1,226 Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.

The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.

I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.

There is no moment without some duty.

Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.

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

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.