Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.

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It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

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The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

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Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.

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Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.

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Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

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Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

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Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.

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Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

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No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

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Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.

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We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.

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The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.

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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

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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.

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To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]

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Hmm... That's like telling you about the cold of space, or terror of midnight. Sithis is all those things. He is... the Void.

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Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.

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Endless money forms the sinews of war. [Lat., Nervi belli pecunia infinita.]

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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.]

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