Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

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Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.

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Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.

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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

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The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common.

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The real friend is another self.

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Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

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Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word.

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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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Nature has inclined us to love men.

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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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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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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

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If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.

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Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

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The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

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He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

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Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good.

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It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

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