Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

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Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself. [Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]

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The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

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Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

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He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.

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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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He has no worse enemy than himself.

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Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

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It is a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.

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Strict law is often great injustice.

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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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For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

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. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed.

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People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

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If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.

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When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.

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Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

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A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

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