Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]

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No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.

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No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds.

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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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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

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The beginnings of all things are small.

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Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

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The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes.

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The aim of justice is to give everyone his due.

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There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

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Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

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Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.

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Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion.

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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

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Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

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Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

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Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.

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There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

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When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.

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