Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Old age by nature is rather talkative.

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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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I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]

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The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.

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In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.

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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

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

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That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.

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It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation.

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I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.

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What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?

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To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child

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O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

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Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.'

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What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

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Inhumanity is harmful in every age. - Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est

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In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

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Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

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Peace is freedom in tranquility.

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