Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life

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Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

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Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.

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The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.

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We are born poets. we become orators.

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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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But if you should take the bond of goodwill out of the universe no house or city could stand, nor would even the tillage of the fields abide. If that statement is not clear, then you may understand how great is the power of friendship and of concord from a consideration of the results of enmity and disagreement. For what house is so strong, or what state so enduring that it cannot be utterly overthrown by animosities and division?

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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

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For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.

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A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.

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Endless money forms the sinews of war. [Lat., Nervi belli pecunia infinita.]

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Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

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The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

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That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]

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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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There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.

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The more laws, the less justice.

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Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.

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Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

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