Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.

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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

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

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To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. [Lat., Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti.]

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What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

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We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means.

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The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.

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We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.

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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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There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside. Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior.

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All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

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No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.

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Life without learning is death.

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If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

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I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.

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Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

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Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

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In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it.

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After victory, you have more enemies.

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To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Lat., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]

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