Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Pardon is granted to necessity.

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Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

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The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.

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The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.

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It is pleasant to recall past troubles.

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Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.

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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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Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]

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He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.

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It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

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There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

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If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

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What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

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The more laws, the less justice.

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Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

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What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.

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Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.

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A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.

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The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.

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The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

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