Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.

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The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.

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It is better to receive than to do injury.

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Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]

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Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

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Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.

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No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds.

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The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.

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Dogs wait for us faithfully.

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To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.

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When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree!

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Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

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It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to find out and persevere in the truth. On the other hand, to be imposed upon, to mistake, to falter, and to be deceived, is as ungraceful as to rave or to be insane.

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Religion is the pious worship of God.

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There is in fact a true law namely right reason, which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men and is unchangeable and eternal. ... It will not lay down one rule at Rome and another at Athens, nor will it be one rule today and another tomorrow. But there will be one law eternal and unchangeable binding all times and upon all peoples.

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

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When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

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Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.

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