Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]

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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

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Everything is alive... Everything is interconnected.

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It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.

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No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.

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To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.

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We must be ever on the search for some persons whom we shall love and who will love us in return. If good will and affection are taken away, every joy is taken from life.

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Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

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Let each man have according to his deserts.

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Studies are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad; they are companions by night, and in travel, and in the country.

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Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

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It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

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Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]

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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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When they remain silent, they cry out.

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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

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A community is like the ones who govern it.

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In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

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We all are imbued with the love of praise.

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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

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