Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

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What times! What manners!

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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

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The illustrious and noble ought to place before them certain rules and regulations, not less for their hours of leisure and relaxation than for those of business.

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Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.

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So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.

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We are born poets. we become orators.

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Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.

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Let each man have according to his deserts.

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Economy is a great revenue. [Lat., Magnum vectigal est parsimonia.]

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Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.

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The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

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Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

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You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.

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No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

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All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

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Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.

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For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

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Let the soldier yield to the civilian.

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