Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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What is more agreeable than one's home?

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Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain.

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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

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Frugality includes all the other virtues.

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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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Calamus fortior gladio.

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In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

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He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

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No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

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Virtue is its own reward.

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No one dances sober, unless he is insane.

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The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.

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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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Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

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Life without learning is death.

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This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.

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All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

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Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.

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Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.

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