Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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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He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

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There were poets before Homer.

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

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I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.

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More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.

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The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.

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How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!

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I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method. [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]

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The precept, "Know yourself," was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind; but likewise that we might understand our own worth.

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This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

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In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

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I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]

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Hatred is inveterate anger.

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The more laws, the less justice.

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We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

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He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.

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Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.

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By doubting we come at truth.

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No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

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