Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.

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In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.

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The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

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Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

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If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries. [Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.]

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From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world.

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The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.

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I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]

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Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.

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Life is nothing without friendship.

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No sane man will dance.

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Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

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Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.

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There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

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People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.... Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. Don't wait till freedom is gone before you enjoy, value, support, protect and make the most of it!

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Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

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Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

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It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.

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The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities, but coeval with that Divine Being who sees and rules both heaven and earth.

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