Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.

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Unraveling the web of Penelope.

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

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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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Tall oaks grow from little acorns.Testing. This is the text of an item. Testing. Origin. Testing. Quoted. Testing. Source. The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

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Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

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The forehead is the gate of the mind.

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I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

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While the sick man has life, there is hope.

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What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

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I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead. [Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.]

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We are not born for ourselves alone.

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Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

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When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.

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The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

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Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

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Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

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The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.

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People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

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