Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.

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Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

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The Jews belong to a dark and repulsive force. One knows how numerous this clique is, how they stick together and what power they exercise through their unions. They are a nation of rascals and deceivers.

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History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

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So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!

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More law, less justice.

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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

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Leisure with dignity.

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Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

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All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

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A community is like the ones who govern it.

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I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.

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Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.

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What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?

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There is no place more delightful than home.

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The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

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There is in fact a true law namely right reason, which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men and is unchangeable and eternal. ... It will not lay down one rule at Rome and another at Athens, nor will it be one rule today and another tomorrow. But there will be one law eternal and unchangeable binding all times and upon all peoples.

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An ancient custom obtains force of nature.

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They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

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A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

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