Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

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The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.

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Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.

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Strain every nerve to gain your point.

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A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

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Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

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The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

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Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

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A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.

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Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.

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When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree!

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It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.

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Before beginning, prepare carefully.

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The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion. . . ."

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The more laws, the less justice.

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It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

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For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.

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Falsehoods border on truths.

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No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds.

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The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.

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