Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

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Philosophy is the true mother of science.

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Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.

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Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

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The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]

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The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem affert loci.]

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This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.

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Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.

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No man in his senses will dance.

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If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

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Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.

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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

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People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

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He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

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Not to know what happened before means to remain forever a child.

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Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

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Economy is a great revenue. [Lat., Magnum vectigal est parsimonia.]

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Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.

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Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

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We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.

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