Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

No one dances sober, unless he is insane.

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We are born poets. we become orators.

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For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

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Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons lives from violence of any and every kind by all means within their power.

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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

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Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.

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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]

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Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.

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How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit?

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A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

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We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means.

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The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

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The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men

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The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

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It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.

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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

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I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

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Strict law is often great injustice.

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There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

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Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.

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