Marcus Tullius Cicero World Quotations

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.

It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.

Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.

This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods.

Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.

I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. [Lat., Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti.]

The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.

Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.

From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world.

Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?

The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.

Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.