Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

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A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

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I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.

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A community is like the ones who govern it.

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When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

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No man in his senses will dance.

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No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

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He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.

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We make allowance for necessity.

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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

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He is rich who wishes no more than he has.

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Those who do not know history will forever remain children

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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

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True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.

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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

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Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.'

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Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)

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It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.

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He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

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