Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes.
More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
