Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

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No one dances sober, unless he is insane.

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Economy is a great revenue. [Lat., Magnum vectigal est parsimonia.]

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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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The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

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The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

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Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

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For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms.

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In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.

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The whole of virtue consists in its practice.

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Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.

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No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

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What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

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Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

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I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

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Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.

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Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]

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For as the law is set over the magistrate, even so are the magistrates set over the people. And therefore, it may be truly said, "that the magistrate is a speaking law, and the law is a silent magistrate.

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There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

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