Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

It is pleasant to recall past troubles.

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We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

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To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]

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Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

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Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.

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A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.

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Strain every nerve to gain your point.

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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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Generosity should never exceed ability.

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What is dignity without honesty?

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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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A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.

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There is no castle so strong that it cannot be overthrown by money.

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There were poets before Homer.

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A s laws multiply, injustice increases.

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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

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In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist.

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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

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As you have sown so shall you reap.

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Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.

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