Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

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Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]

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Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)

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Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.

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Whatever you do, do with all your might.

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Tomorrow will give us something to think about

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Old age is by nature rather talkative.

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Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

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This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.

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It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.

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The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.

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Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

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Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.

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Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.

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But as to the affection which anyone may have for us, it is the first demand of duty that we do most for him who loves us most; but we should measure affection, not like youngsters, by the ardour of its passion, but rather by its strength and constancy.

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

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The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.

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All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

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Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

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I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

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