Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

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There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

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If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.

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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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Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain.

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Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.

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As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.

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No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind. [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]

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For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.

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A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

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Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

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What is permissible is not always honorable.

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It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

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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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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

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No one dances sober, unless he is insane.

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You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.

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A wise man does nothing by constraint.

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Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).

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