Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

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For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

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Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

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Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.

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There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

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Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.

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Everyone has his besetting sin.

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There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

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Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]

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Let the punishment match the offense.

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It is a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.

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Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.

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Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]

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Law stands mute in the midst of arms.

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Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone.

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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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The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

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These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.

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By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.

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