Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]

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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

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Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

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Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

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No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

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Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.

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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

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Endless money forms the sinews of war. [Lat., Nervi belli pecunia infinita.]

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Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

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Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.

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There were poets before Homer.

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There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

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They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.

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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

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In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

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There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover the infinity of things, the immensity of Nature, the heavens, the earth, and the seas; this is that branch which has taught us religion, moderation, magnanimity, and that has rescued the soul from obscurity; to make her see all things above and below, first and last, and between both; it is this that furnishes us wherewith to live well and happily, and guides us to pass our lives without displeasure and without offence.

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Religion is the pious worship of God.

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