Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

When war is raging the laws are dumb.

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True nobility is exempt from fear.

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The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

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. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed.

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The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

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Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.

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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.

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For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?

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This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

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It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

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It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

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I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature.

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The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

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Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.

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

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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

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Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

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