Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

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In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.

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The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

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More laws, less justice.

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I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.]

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To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]

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In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

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In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

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I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

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Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

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Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

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You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.

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Nature abhors annihilation.

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If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

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Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

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Let the soldier yield to the civilian.

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Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

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As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap.

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