Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

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Tall oaks grow from little acorns.Testing. This is the text of an item. Testing. Origin. Testing. Quoted. Testing. Source. The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

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Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.

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Let your desires be ruled by reason.

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Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.

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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

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What times! What manners!

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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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By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.

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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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Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.

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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

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As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.

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He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.

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A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.

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The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.

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

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The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.

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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

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I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

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