Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

• As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Character, Men, Fire

  "Pro Roscio Comodeo". Oration by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Section 17), circa 76 BC.

• A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Water, Mind, Stains

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1928). “De Re Publica”

• Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters.
  [Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis elui potest.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Water, Wickedness, Stains

• Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Fire, Water, Use

• Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Fire, Hands

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