Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.

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For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?

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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

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O tempora! O mores! O what times (are these)! what morals!

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No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.

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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.

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Do nothing twice over.

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The first bond of society is marriage.

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A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

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Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

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What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

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Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

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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 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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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

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An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man.

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Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.

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Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

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Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

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