Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

To live long it is necessary to live slowly.

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Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

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A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.

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Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

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Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain.

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There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

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The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

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True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

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A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.

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

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The first bond of society is marriage.

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Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

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It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.

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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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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

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But as to the affection which anyone may have for us, it is the first demand of duty that we do most for him who loves us most; but we should measure affection, not like youngsters, by the ardour of its passion, but rather by its strength and constancy.

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They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

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Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. [Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis elui potest.]

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