Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

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For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

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I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]

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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

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I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

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We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means.

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Saving the virtues includes all other advantages

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Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

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Taxes are the sinews of the state.

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

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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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Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.

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Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.

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If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

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Though laughter is allowable, a horse-laugh is abominable.

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Every animal loves itself.

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Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.

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No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

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