Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.

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The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

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Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.

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No power is strong enough to be lasting, if it labours under the weight of fear.

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A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.

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The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

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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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There is no moment without some duty.

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Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

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The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

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Unraveling the web of Penelope.

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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.

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The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

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I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.

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The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.

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Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.

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The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.

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If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.

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It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

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