Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.

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The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

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In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

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There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

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All soils are not fertile.

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Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

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Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

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In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

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The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized.

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

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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

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To-morrow will give some food for thought.

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There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

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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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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. [Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.]

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The most evident difference between man and animals is this: the beast, in as much as it is largely motivated by the senses and with little perception of the past or future, lives only for the present. But man, because he is endowed with reason by which he is able to perceive relationships, sees the causes of things, understands the reciprocal nature of cause and effect, makes analogies, easily surveys the whole course of his life, and makes the necessary preparations for its conduct.

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Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

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Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.

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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

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