Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.

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History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.

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Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]

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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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A letter does not blush.

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Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.

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Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.

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Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.

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

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Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

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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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Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

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Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

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Laws are inoperative in war

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The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.

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"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."

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A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

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No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

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Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

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