Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

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Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

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The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.

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I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method. [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]

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In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

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For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.

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Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

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Let each man have according to his deserts.

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It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.

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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

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Man is his own worst enemy.

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Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

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Calamus fortior gladio.

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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

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A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.

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In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist.

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Time is the herald of truth.

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That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

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To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

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