Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

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Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]

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In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it.

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Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.

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A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.

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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

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I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.

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No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

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Let the punishment match the offense.

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I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.

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

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What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

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He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.

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Diligence which, as it avails in all things, is also of the utmost moment in pleading causes. Diligence is to be particularly cultivated by us; it is to be constantly exerted; it is capable of effecting almost everything.

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I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.

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Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]

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Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

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