Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Before beginning, prepare carefully.

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To some extent I liken slavery to death.

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An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

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No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds.

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All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

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Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year.

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No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

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A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

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Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

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Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.

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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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Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]

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Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

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Friends, though absent, are still present.

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It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.

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The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

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If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

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Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.

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Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

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