Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

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Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.

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There is no place more delightful than home.

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If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

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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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To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

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

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Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.

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Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.

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But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?

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Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

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People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.... Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. Don't wait till freedom is gone before you enjoy, value, support, protect and make the most of it!

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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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Freedom is participation in power.

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Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

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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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It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.

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O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

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If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

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Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

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