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Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 42

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Nothing quite new is perfect.

Nothing quite new is perfect.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Perfect, Perfection, Quitting

As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Results, Reap
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, De Oratore, II. 65, p. 670, 1922.

He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Modesty, Obedience, Worthy
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, De Legibus, III. 2, p. 564, 1922.

Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Sweet, Song, Eye

For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life, Change, Time

Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Peace, War, Yield

For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot die wretchedly.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Death, Courage, Men

Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Truth, Writing, Law

If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Moving, Ships, Tone

In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Love, Passion, Thinking
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1966). “Cicero”

Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Believe, Oratory, Gains

This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Race, Mind, World
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1966). “Cicero”

What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nature, Law, Impossible

Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Children, Father, Law

Peace is so beneficial that the word itself is pleasant to hear.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Pleasant, Beneficial

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