Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

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They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with blond hair. I would not be in the least bit surprised if these people would not some day become deadly to the human race.

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As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.

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We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.

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The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.

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Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.

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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

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Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?

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Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.

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Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

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Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.

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The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.

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It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.

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There were poets before Homer.

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The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.

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No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

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When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.

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I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.

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For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

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Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

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