Inspirational Quotations by Cicero
- What one has he ought to use;
and whatever he does,
he should do with all his might.
- Friendship improves happiness and abates misery,
by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
- Advice is judged by results, not intentions
- Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and
honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- It is the character of a brave and resolute man not
to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.
- I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.
- Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.
- Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
- Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.
- Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual good-will and affection.
- It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
- Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?
- It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.