Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

He has no worse enemy than himself.

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Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home

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All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. [Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.]

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What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

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Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

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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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Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.

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It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.

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

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This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.

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The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

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In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful

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The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized.

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Inhumanity is harmful in every age. - Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est

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Pardon is granted to necessity.

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