Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.

In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

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

Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.

There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.

No sane man will dance.

He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.

For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.

The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.

What is more agreeable than one's home?

The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.

Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.

Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge.

There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.

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.

In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.

Pardon is granted to necessity.

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with blond hair. I would not be in the least bit surprised if these people would not some day become deadly to the human race.

People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.... Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. Don't wait till freedom is gone before you enjoy, value, support, protect and make the most of it!

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

The beginnings of all things are small.

Men of different tastes have different pursuits.

It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.

There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow

Everything is alive... Everything is interconnected.

Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity.

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done.

There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?