Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

• A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Joy, Heaven

• A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.2759, Delphi Classics

• Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Hate, Reality, Men

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Edward William Sutton, Harris Rackham (1942). “Cicero, De Oratore: In Two Volumes”

• Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Home, Adversity

• We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Wise, Views

• We must be ever on the search for some persons whom we shall love and who will love us in return. If good will and affection are taken away, every joy is taken from life.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Taken, Heart, Joy

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Armistead Falconer (1923). “Cicero in twenty-nine volumes”

• Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Hate, Winning, Reality

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