Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

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We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.

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There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

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In the approach to virtue there are many steps.

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The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.

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No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god. [Lat., Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans; aut temperans, voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest.]

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No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

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If anyone cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of feeling at all. From the enduring wonder of the heavens flows all grace and power. If anyone thinks it is mindless then he himself must be out of his mind.

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The sinews of war are infinite money.

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Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

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The law is silent during war. [Lat., Silent leges inter arma.]

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Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

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Man is his own worst enemy.

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It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

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If some lose their whole fortunes, they will drag many more down with them . . . believe me that the whole system of credit and finance which is carried on here at Rome in the Forum, is inextricably bound up with the revenues of the Asiatic province. If Those revenues are destroyed, our whole system of credit will come down with a crash.

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Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.

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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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When they remain silent, they cry out.

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Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.

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