Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

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The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.

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There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest.

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It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation.

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Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

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The foundation of justice is good faith.

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I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.

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It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

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There is nothing which God cannot do. [Lat., Nihil est quod deus efficere non possit.]

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Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain.

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Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

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This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

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Scurrility has no object in view but incivility; if it is uttered from feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse; if it is spoken in a joking manner, it may be considered raillery.

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Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.

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I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method. [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]

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Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

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Laws are inoperative in war

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