Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.

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Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

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It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.

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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

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Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

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Can you also, Lucullus, affirm that there is any power united with wisdom and prudence which has made, or, to use your own expression, manufactured man? What sort of a manufacture is that? Where is it exercised? when? why? how?

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What is more agreeable than one's home?

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A s laws multiply, injustice increases.

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There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

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I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.

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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

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All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

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How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

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Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.

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When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.

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Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

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There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

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Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says. [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare; nullius, nisi insipientis, in errore perseverae. Posteriores enim cogitationes (ut aiunt) sapientiores solent esse.]

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I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.

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