Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

No sane man will dance.

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No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

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We must be ever on the search for some persons whom we shall love and who will love us in return. If good will and affection are taken away, every joy is taken from life.

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A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

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A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

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A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

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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.

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The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

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Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.

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Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

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Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

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Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says. [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare; nullius, nisi insipientis, in errore perseverae. Posteriores enim cogitationes (ut aiunt) sapientiores solent esse.]

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The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.

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Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

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For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

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True nobility is exempt from fear.

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Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

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History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.

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Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

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