Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

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In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated by a combination of rights. And by this definition it appears that a multitude of men may be just as tyrannical as a single despot and indeed this is the most odious of all tyrannies, since no monster can be more barbarous than the mob, which assumes the name and mask of the people.

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"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."

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Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

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Before beginning, prepare carefully.

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

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Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

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Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]

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No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]

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It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

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The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

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O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

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Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.

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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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Strain every nerve to gain your point.

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This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

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

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