Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

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Our liberality should not exceed our ability.

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A man has no enemy worse than himself.

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He who suffers, remembers.

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To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.

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Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?

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Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]

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Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

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The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

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More laws, less justice.

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The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.

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Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory of our empire, the dignity of our name, the customs of our ancestors.

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People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

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An ancient custom obtains force of nature.

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Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

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The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.

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Endless money forms the sinews of war. [Lat., Nervi belli pecunia infinita.]

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There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

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So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.

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The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

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