Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.

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Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.

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Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

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It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

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Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?

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Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

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When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree!

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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

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

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The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes.

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All great men are partially inspired.

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I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.

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Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.

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There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.

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A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.

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It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

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The works of nature must all be accounted good.

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Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.

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Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

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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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