Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

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Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.

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The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized.

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Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.

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. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed.

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There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.

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

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Be a pattern to others and then all will go well.

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Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself. [Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]

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If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

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To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

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A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

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Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]

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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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I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

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Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.

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Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

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Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

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Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.

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Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.

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