Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]

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The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem affert loci.]

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

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Let your desires be ruled by reason.

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Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.

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Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

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The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

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The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

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I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

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Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.

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Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.

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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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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

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The sinews of war are infinite money.

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No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

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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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Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

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I am a Roman citizen.

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Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.

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No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

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