Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

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Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.'

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Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

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Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

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Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.

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Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

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Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.

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Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.

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

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In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.

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

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Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

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In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

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There is no thing which God cannot accomplish.

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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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We all are imbued with the love of praise.

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They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.

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Whatever you do, do with all your might.

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