Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.

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It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.

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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

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Our generosity never should exceed our abilities.

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Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

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Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.

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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. [Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.]

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More law, less justice.

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Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

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A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

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I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

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That he who hath the loan of money has not repaid it, and he who has repaid has not the loan; but he who has acknowledged a kindness has it still, and he who has a feeling of it has requited it.

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The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.

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Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.

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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]

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People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.... Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. Don't wait till freedom is gone before you enjoy, value, support, protect and make the most of it!

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There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

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There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.

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