Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.

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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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In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.

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

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Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.

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He has no worse enemy than himself.

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I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

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For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.

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Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]

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Thrift is a great revenue.

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No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

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No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

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The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.

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When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

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Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.

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The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

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The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

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No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]

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