Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

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There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

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The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

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Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.

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That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.

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

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We are born poets. we become orators.

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The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.

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No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.

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If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.

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When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

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Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

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Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]

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If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

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All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

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I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

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The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.

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The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.

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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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The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.

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