Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

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Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

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The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.

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

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Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

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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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The human mind ever longs for occupation.

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A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

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"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."

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Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.

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Cicero is dead! Cicero is born! The laughter has filled me, filled me so very completely. I am the laughter. I am the jester. The soul that has served as my constant companion for so long has breached the veil of the Void finally and forever. It is now in me. It is me. The world has seen the last of Cicero the man. Behold Cicero, Fool of Hearts - laughter incarnate!

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The popular breeze - Aura popularis

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Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.

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I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

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Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.

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If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

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Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

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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 not a moment without some duty.

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