Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God

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O tempora! O mores! O what times (are these)! what morals!

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An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

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Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.

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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

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The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

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This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

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A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

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Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

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Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.

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I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

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Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.

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An ancient custom obtains force of nature.

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The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.

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In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

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A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.

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A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

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The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.

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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.

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Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

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