Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Ancient Roman Military Personnel
Ancient Roman Politician
Ancient Roman Priest
Jurist
Lawyer
Orator
Philosopher
Poet
Political Theorist
Dallas
Texas
Marcus Tullius Cicero
M. Tullii Ciceronis
Marcus Tullius -- Translations into French Cicero
Given
Better
Wells
Delightful
Might
Immortal
Well
Gods
Nothing
Sky
Take
Sun
Life
Friendship
More quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Peace is so beneficial that the word itself is pleasant to hear.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
I cannot find a faithful message-bearer, he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is no castle so strong that it cannot be overthrown by money.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Man's best support is a very dear friend.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
