1,226 Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

Hatred is inveterate anger.

Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.

The human mind ever longs for occupation.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.

What times! What manners!

All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.