Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

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He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

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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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The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.

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There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.

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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

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Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.

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A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

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Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.

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Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

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True nobility is exempt from fear.

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

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The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

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Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]

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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

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I am never less alone than when alone.

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When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.

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History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.

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Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.

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What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]

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