Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

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Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.

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These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.

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In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.

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Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

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He is rich who wishes no more than he has.

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In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.

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The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.

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Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

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Philosophy is the true mother of science.

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Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.

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The human mind ever longs for occupation.

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Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

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What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.

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What is dignity without honesty?

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But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.

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No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.

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Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

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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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More law, less justice.

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