Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]

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Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

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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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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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Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.

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In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

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We are born poets. we become orators.

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An unjust peace is better than a just war.

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No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.

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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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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

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He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

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Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

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Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue.

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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

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It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.

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It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

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