Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.

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In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.

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The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.

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Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?

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Men of different tastes have different pursuits.

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Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man.

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But as to the affection which anyone may have for us, it is the first demand of duty that we do most for him who loves us most; but we should measure affection, not like youngsters, by the ardour of its passion, but rather by its strength and constancy.

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No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

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Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.

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It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.

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Religion is not removed by removing superstition.

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Those who do not know history will forever remain children

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Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.

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There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

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Let the soldier yield to the civilian.

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Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.

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If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.

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My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

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Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.

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Everyone has his besetting sin.

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