Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Let the soldier yield to the civilian.

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Law stands mute in the midst of arms.

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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.

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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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The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

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All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]

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For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.

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Through doubt we arrive at the truth.

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Our liberality should not exceed our ability.

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For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

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He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.

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Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

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To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.

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This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

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Cicero is dead! Cicero is born! The laughter has filled me, filled me so very completely. I am the laughter. I am the jester. The soul that has served as my constant companion for so long has breached the veil of the Void finally and forever. It is now in me. It is me. The world has seen the last of Cicero the man. Behold Cicero, Fool of Hearts - laughter incarnate!

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When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.

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The forehead is the gate of the mind.

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All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

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There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.

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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

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