Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.

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The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.

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Whatever you do, do with all your might.

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I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

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The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.

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It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.

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It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

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Pardon is granted to necessity.

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

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If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

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Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).

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Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain.

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I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.]

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Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

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The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

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As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.

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A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

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For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.

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No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

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It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

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