Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

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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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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

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If some lose their whole fortunes, they will drag many more down with them . . . believe me that the whole system of credit and finance which is carried on here at Rome in the Forum, is inextricably bound up with the revenues of the Asiatic province. If Those revenues are destroyed, our whole system of credit will come down with a crash.

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When they remain silent, they cry out.

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Friends, though absent, are still present.

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Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

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Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.

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Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

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For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

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Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

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Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.

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What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.

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Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

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I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

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Those who do not know history will forever remain children

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Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.

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