Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

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The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

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If some lose their whole fortunes, they will drag many more down with them . . . believe me that the whole system of credit and finance which is carried on here at Rome in the Forum, is inextricably bound up with the revenues of the Asiatic province. If Those revenues are destroyed, our whole system of credit will come down with a crash.

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

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

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I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

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There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

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If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

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History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.

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To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]

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Friends, though absent, are still present.

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No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]

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Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

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No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.

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How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

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What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

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Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. [Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis elui potest.]

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

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Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

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