Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.

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This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.

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Freedom is participation in power.

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No sober person dances.

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When they remain silent, they cry out.

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No one dances sober, unless he is insane.

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Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

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Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

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Taxes are the sinews of the state.

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I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature.

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What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

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Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

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Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]

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O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]

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We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

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An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy).

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In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.

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Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

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