Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

If some lose their whole fortunes, they will drag many more down with them . . . believe me that the whole system of credit and finance which is carried on here at Rome in the Forum, is inextricably bound up with the revenues of the Asiatic province. If Those revenues are destroyed, our whole system of credit will come down with a crash.

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The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.

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It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

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Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]

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By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.

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Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

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War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.

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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

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The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

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All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

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No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

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He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

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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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For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very often his countenance, are deceitful, and his speech is most commonly a lie.

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

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There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

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Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

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When war is raging the laws are dumb.

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

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Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

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