Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

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Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?

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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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Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

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Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)

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These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.

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Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

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In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

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If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

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Laws are inoperative in war

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To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.

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The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized.

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Laws are silent in time of war.

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Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

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Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

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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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This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods.

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Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

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