Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Our liberality should not exceed our ability.

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Like associates with like.

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In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music.

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When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

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From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world.

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When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.

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There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

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For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

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History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.

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If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

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Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.

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Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

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Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.

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When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.

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In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.

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Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

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In the approach to virtue there are many steps.

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There are no true friends in politics.

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What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

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