Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit?

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An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy).

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A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

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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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After victory, you have more enemies.

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An unjust peace is better than a just war.

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Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.

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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 strictest law often causes the most serious wrong

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For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

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There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

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When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

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In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

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The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

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They condemn what they do not understand.

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I am a Roman citizen.

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No one dances sober, unless he is insane.

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The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

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Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion.

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