Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.

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There is no castle so strong that it cannot be overthrown by money.

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I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

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Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.

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He who suffers, remembers.

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Man's best support is a very dear friend.

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The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.

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We all are imbued with the love of praise.

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The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]

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Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

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Generosity should never exceed ability.

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I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

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A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

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When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.

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Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

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Probability is the very guide of life.

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Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

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On the subject of the nature of the gods, the first question is Do the gods exist or do the not? It is difficult you may say to deny that they exist. I would agree if we were arguing the matter in a public assembly, but in a private discussion of this kind, it is perfectly easy to do so.

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