Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

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Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

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Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge.

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Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.

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Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

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Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.

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There is nothing which God cannot do. [Lat., Nihil est quod deus efficere non possit.]

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It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.

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But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?

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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

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Genius is fostered by industry.

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Nothing quite new is perfect.

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This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.

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It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.

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Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.

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I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.

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Opinionum enim commenta delet dies; naturæ judicia confirmat. Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality.

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Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

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What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

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He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.

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