Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

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More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.

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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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I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method. [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]

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The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.

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Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

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No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

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He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

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For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

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Let each man have according to his deserts.

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Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.

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Opinionum enim commenta delet dies; naturæ judicia confirmat. Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality.

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Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

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The best interpreter of the law is custom.

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The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.

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The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

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Dogs wait for us faithfully.

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Judge not by the number, but by the weight.

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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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