Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

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The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.

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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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Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.

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The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.

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It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.

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The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.

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I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.

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If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.

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If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.

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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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Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.

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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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Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

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The law is silent during war. [Lat., Silent leges inter arma.]

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There is nothing which God cannot do. [Lat., Nihil est quod deus efficere non possit.]

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Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.

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We must be ever on the search for some persons whom we shall love and who will love us in return. If good will and affection are taken away, every joy is taken from life.

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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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Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

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