Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]

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It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

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Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

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There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

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Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquility and peace.

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The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

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In the approach to virtue there are many steps.

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Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

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Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.'

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Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

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These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.

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Whatever you do, do with all your might.

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It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

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Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.

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Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.

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A community is like the ones who govern it.

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Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

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Honor is the reward of virtue.

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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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