Quotes from Cicero

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.

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

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.