Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods.

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Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

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Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

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Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

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Honor is the reward of virtue.

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A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

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It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

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There is not a moment without some duty.

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Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

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Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.

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I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

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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 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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Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

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Law stands mute in the midst of arms.

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Man is his own worst enemy.

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It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.

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It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

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To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

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That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

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