Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit?

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That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.

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It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

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Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

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Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

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Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.

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An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

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Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.

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Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

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

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

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The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.

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For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.

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Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

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We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.

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Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead in a low voice so that only the judges may hear, for instigators are not lacking to stir up the crowd against me, and against all the best citizens. To scorn, in the interest of the Republic, this multitude of Jews so often turbulent in the assemblies shows a singular strength of mind. The money is in the Treasury; they do not accuse us of theft; they seek to stir up hatreds.

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Do nothing twice over.

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There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.

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Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.

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