Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.

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

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Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

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What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?

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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

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It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.

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True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.

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Thrift is a great revenue.

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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

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This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods.

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The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.

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Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

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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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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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Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

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If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

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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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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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I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead. [Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.]

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