No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power. Marcus Tullius Cicero More Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero More Quotes From Marcus Tullius Cicero All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another. Marcus Tullius Cicero men blood art An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home. Marcus Tullius Cicero army home war So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge. Marcus Tullius Cicero truth wise lying Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. Marcus Tullius Cicero adversity grief friendship Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory of our empire, the dignity of our name, the customs of our ancestors. Marcus Tullius Cicero jerusalem practice names There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune. Marcus Tullius Cicero delight change fortune He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men. Marcus Tullius Cicero ignorant errors men Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening? Marcus Tullius Cicero body change years To the sick, while there is life there is hope. Marcus Tullius Cicero there-is-hope sick hope Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul. Marcus Tullius Cicero borrowing peter pay Never injure a friend, even in jest. Marcus Tullius Cicero jest philosophical friendship For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself. Marcus Tullius Cicero real faces looks He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it. Marcus Tullius Cicero grateful acknowledge kindness The spirit is the true self. Marcus Tullius Cicero self spiritual life The forehead is the gate of the mind. Marcus Tullius Cicero foreheads gates mind The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes. Marcus Tullius Cicero solace good-intentions consciousness In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality. Marcus Tullius Cicero limits may fall Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. Marcus Tullius Cicero plato sea men Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue. Marcus Tullius Cicero fellowship eye mind I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent. Marcus Tullius Cicero excellent poet thinking