Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]

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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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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

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Hunger is the best sauce.

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In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful

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To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.

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Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

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The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

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There is no place more delightful than home.

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

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Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. [Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis elui potest.]

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Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.

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Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

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There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.

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I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.

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You may never be less alone than when you are alone.

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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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There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

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The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

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