Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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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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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Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home

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Nature has inclined us to love men.

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I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

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The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes.

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There were poets before Homer.

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Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

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Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.

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Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

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

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They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with blond hair. I would not be in the least bit surprised if these people would not some day become deadly to the human race.

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What is permissible is not always honorable.

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We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means.

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No one has leave to sin.

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The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.

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It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

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Laws are inoperative in war

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I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature.

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