Marcus Tullius Cicero Giving Quotations

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.

In nothing do men approach so nearly to the Gods, as in giving health to men.

All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.

As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it

The aim of justice is to give everyone his due.

To-morrow will give some food for thought.

Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.

The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.

Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

Tomorrow will give us something to think about

To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.

For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions.

Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.

This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.

If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.

I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.