Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.

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To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.

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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

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Laws are silent in time of war.

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When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

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Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

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Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

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Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

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No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

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Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. [Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis elui potest.]

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Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

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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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Thrift is a great revenue.

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For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.

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He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

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There is no castle so strong that it cannot be overthrown by money.

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All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]

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I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.

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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

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