Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world.

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]

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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

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The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

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Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead in a low voice so that only the judges may hear, for instigators are not lacking to stir up the crowd against me, and against all the best citizens. To scorn, in the interest of the Republic, this multitude of Jews so often turbulent in the assemblies shows a singular strength of mind. The money is in the Treasury; they do not accuse us of theft; they seek to stir up hatreds.

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The more laws, the less justice.

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No one has leave to sin.

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No sober person dances.

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Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.

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History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

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For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

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Our liberality should not exceed our ability.

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I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.

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The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body. [Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]

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There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

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If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

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

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Thrift is of great revenue.

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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

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In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

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