Quotes from Cicero
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
- Cicero
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
- Cicero
No power is strong enough to be lasting, if it labours under the weight of fear.
- Cicero
While there's life, there's hope.
- Cicero
Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.
- Cicero
We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory
- Cicero
The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
- Cicero
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
- Cicero
Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
- Cicero
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
- Cicero
True nobility is exempt from fear.
- Cicero
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.
- Cicero