Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.

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The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

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When war is raging the laws are dumb.

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Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.

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To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]

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No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

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The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

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Diligence which, as it avails in all things, is also of the utmost moment in pleading causes. Diligence is to be particularly cultivated by us; it is to be constantly exerted; it is capable of effecting almost everything.

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O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]

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Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

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Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

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Hatred is inveterate anger.

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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

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In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

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I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.

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It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.

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Reason should direct, and appetite obey.

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True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.

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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

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Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

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