Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

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Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.

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The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.

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A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

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Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

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A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

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It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

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When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.

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Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

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In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

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Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

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To some extent I liken slavery to death.

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This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

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What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

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For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?

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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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There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.

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The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

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