Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

A community is like the ones who govern it.

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Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

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Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.

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The wise man never loses his temper.

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If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.

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Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

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Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue.

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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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Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge.

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The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

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But if you should take the bond of goodwill out of the universe no house or city could stand, nor would even the tillage of the fields abide. If that statement is not clear, then you may understand how great is the power of friendship and of concord from a consideration of the results of enmity and disagreement. For what house is so strong, or what state so enduring that it cannot be utterly overthrown by animosities and division?

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Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good.

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When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.

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O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

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Nature abhors annihilation.

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Unraveling the web of Penelope.

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An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

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No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.

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What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.

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It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.

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