Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind. [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]

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The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.

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Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

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The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

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The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.

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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

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The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.

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If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.

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It is pleasant to recall past troubles.

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I am a Roman citizen.

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I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

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Man must suffer to be wise.

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

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It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.

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Friends are proved by adversity.

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No man in his senses will dance.

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I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

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Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.

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There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.

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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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