Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.

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To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.

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Everyone has his besetting sin.

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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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Hunger is the best sauce.

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Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

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I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.

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Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

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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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We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.

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It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.

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Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

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It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.

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The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

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Laws are silent in time of war.

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Certain signs precede certain events.

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If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.

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No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]

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