Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you. 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 menbloodart An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home. Marcus Tullius Cicero armyhomewar So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge. Marcus Tullius Cicero truthwiselying Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. Marcus Tullius Cicero adversitygrieffriendship 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 jerusalempracticenames There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune. Marcus Tullius Cicero delightchangefortune He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men. Marcus Tullius Cicero ignoranterrorsmen Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening? Marcus Tullius Cicero bodychangeyears To the sick, while there is life there is hope. Marcus Tullius Cicero there-is-hopesickhope Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul. Marcus Tullius Cicero borrowingpeterpay Never injure a friend, even in jest. Marcus Tullius Cicero jestphilosophicalfriendship For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself. Marcus Tullius Cicero realfaceslooks He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it. Marcus Tullius Cicero gratefulacknowledgekindness The spirit is the true self. Marcus Tullius Cicero selfspirituallife The forehead is the gate of the mind. Marcus Tullius Cicero foreheadsgatesmind The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes. Marcus Tullius Cicero solacegood-intentionsconsciousness 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 limitsmayfall Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. Marcus Tullius Cicero platoseamen Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue. Marcus Tullius Cicero fellowshipeyemind I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent. Marcus Tullius Cicero excellentpoetthinking