Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The human mind ever longs for occupation.

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Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.

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A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.

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In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.

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We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means.

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Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

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The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

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Thrift is of great revenue.

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Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.

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This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.

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No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.

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Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.

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Our thoughts are free.

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It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation.

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Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.

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The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.

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There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.

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An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

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The spirit is the true self.

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It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

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