Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

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The beginnings of all things are small.

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Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.

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No sane man will dance.

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I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.

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Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.

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O tempora! O mores! O what times (are these)! what morals!

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What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.

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Let each man have according to his deserts.

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Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

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

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An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man.

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No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

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The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

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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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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

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Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]

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Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

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We all are imbued with the love of praise.

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When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.

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