Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Genius is fostered by industry.

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We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means.

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Tomorrow will give us something to think about

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The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.

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I am never less alone than when alone.

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The best interpreter of the law is custom.

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Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.

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All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

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A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

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Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.

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When war is raging the laws are dumb.

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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

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Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

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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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The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.

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Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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All soils are not fertile.

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No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

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We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

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