Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

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When war is raging the laws are dumb.

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Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

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For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.

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I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

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The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

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In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.

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For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life.

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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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The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.

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Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

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If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.

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Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.

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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

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Judge not by the number, but by the weight.

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Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

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Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

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