Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

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A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.

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Falsehoods border on truths.

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Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?

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There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

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For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

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True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.

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More laws, less justice.

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So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.

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What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

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Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

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Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

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For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.

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It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

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All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

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Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.

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Taxes are the sinews of the state.

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A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

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