Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.

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Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

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So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.

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Freedom is participation in power.

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Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.

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

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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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It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.

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

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Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.

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I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.

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Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

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The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.

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The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.

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If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.

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There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.

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Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

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These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.

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Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)

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That man is guilty of impertinence who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject of his discourse, or pays no regard to the company he is in.

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