Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

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Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.

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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

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An ancient custom obtains force of nature.

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There is no place more delightful than home.

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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

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A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

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Religion is the pious worship of God.

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Those who do not know history will forever remain children

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There were poets before Homer.

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In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.

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So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.

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Virtue is its own reward.

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The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

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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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No one has leave to sin.

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Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

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What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?

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Unraveling the web of Penelope.

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