Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis quotes - Page : 3

" It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good. " # Evil

" Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. " # Friends and Friendship # Self-improvement # Happiness

" For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity " # Preparation # Death and Dying # Change

" I criticize by creation - not by finding fault. " # Critics and Criticism

" For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life. " # Business

" Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.
(No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars.) " # Fools and Foolishness

" Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults. " # Faults # Friends and Friendship # Suffering

" If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure " # Learning # Leisure # Age and Aging

" As I approve of a youth who has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man who has something of the youth. " # Youth