Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.

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Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

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Reason should direct, and appetite obey.

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We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.

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More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.

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History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

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Leisure with dignity.

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I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

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Our thoughts are free.

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The whole glory of virtue resides in activity.

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Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]

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In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

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Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.

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The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.

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For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

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Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]

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But as to the affection which anyone may have for us, it is the first demand of duty that we do most for him who loves us most; but we should measure affection, not like youngsters, by the ardour of its passion, but rather by its strength and constancy.

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Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

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The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.

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