Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.

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For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

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Strain every nerve to gain your point.

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Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

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People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

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Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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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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While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.

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True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions... It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.

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It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

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There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

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The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

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The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

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No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]

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The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

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It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

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Though laughter is allowable, a horse-laugh is abominable.

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Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]

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When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.

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