Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.

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There were poets before Homer.

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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

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If some lose their whole fortunes, they will drag many more down with them . . . believe me that the whole system of credit and finance which is carried on here at Rome in the Forum, is inextricably bound up with the revenues of the Asiatic province. If Those revenues are destroyed, our whole system of credit will come down with a crash.

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Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home

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The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.

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Hatred is settled anger.

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Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.

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In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

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A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

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Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.

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Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

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The science of love is the philosophy of the heart

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Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.

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The law is silent during war. [Lat., Silent leges inter arma.]

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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 depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home. [Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]

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The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

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To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child

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The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

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