If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third. Marcus Tullius Cicero More Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero More Quotes From Marcus Tullius Cicero One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees. Marcus Tullius Cicero individualbodysoul No one dances sober, unless he is insane. Marcus Tullius Cicero soberinsane It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to find out and persevere in the truth. On the other hand, to be imposed upon, to mistake, to falter, and to be deceived, is as ungraceful as to rave or to be insane. Marcus Tullius Cicero mistakementhinking Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions. Marcus Tullius Cicero suggestionsadvicegiving The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter. Marcus Tullius Cicero eyemindfaces It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish. Marcus Tullius Cicero wealthwishfirsts True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting. Marcus Tullius Cicero flowerrootsfall Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent. Marcus Tullius Cicero innocencephilosophicalguilty He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing. Marcus Tullius Cicero doerelaxationmen Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination. Marcus Tullius Cicero difficultvirtueimagination No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty. Marcus Tullius Cicero phases-of-lifephasesmilitary It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal. Marcus Tullius Cicero criminalsmightmen In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music. Marcus Tullius Cicero ignorantinspirationmen The whole of virtue consists in its practice. Marcus Tullius Cicero virtuewholepractice Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain. Marcus Tullius Cicero spainnamesthinking Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood. Marcus Tullius Cicero falsehoodi-can Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger. Marcus Tullius Cicero budstrongerevil The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master. Marcus Tullius Cicero servantmasterssometimes In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight of the argument. Indeed the authority of those who set out to teach is often an impediment to those who wish to learn. They cease to use their own judgment and regard as gospel whatever is put forward by their chosen teacher. Marcus Tullius Cicero atheismwishteacher For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well. Marcus Tullius Cicero life-is-shortspacelong
