Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Time is the herald of truth.

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Men of different tastes have different pursuits.

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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

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Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured; but when we obtain the victory, we must preserve those enemies who behaved without cruelty or inhumanity during the war.

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Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

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To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.

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A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

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Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

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No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.

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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. [Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.]

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The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

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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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It is better to receive than to do injury.

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The illustrious and noble ought to place before them certain rules and regulations, not less for their hours of leisure and relaxation than for those of business.

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Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

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He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.

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Though laughter is allowable, a horse-laugh is abominable.

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Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

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Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

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