Quotes from Cicero
Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.
- Cicero
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
- Cicero
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
- Cicero
The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.
- Cicero
The dregs of Romulus.
- Cicero
Let arms yield to the toga, the laurel crown to praise.
- Cicero
Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.
- Cicero
There is nothing so ridiculous but some philosopher has said it.
- Cicero
Never less idle than when wholly idle, nor less alone than when wholly alone.
- Cicero
Let the punishment match the offense.
- Cicero
People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
- Cicero
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
- Cicero