Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]

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Strict law is often great injustice.

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He he he... Crazy? Cicero? He he he he! That's... madness.

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Men of different tastes have different pursuits.

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All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

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I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]

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By doubting we come at truth.

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Old age by nature is rather talkative.

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Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.

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The illustrious and noble ought to place before them certain rules and regulations, not less for their hours of leisure and relaxation than for those of business.

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

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Old age is by nature rather talkative.

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I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

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It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

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Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

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O tempora! O mores! O what times (are these)! what morals!

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There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.

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Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

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Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

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