Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]

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The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

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They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

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No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.

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Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.

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Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

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He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

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Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

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It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.

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A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

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Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

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Life is short, but art lives forever.

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In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done.

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Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

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Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.

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O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]

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That he who hath the loan of money has not repaid it, and he who has repaid has not the loan; but he who has acknowledged a kindness has it still, and he who has a feeling of it has requited it.

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

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No man in his senses will dance.

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