Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!

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O tempora! O mores! O what times (are these)! what morals!

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Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

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For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?

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It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

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Taxes are the sinews of the state.

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While the sick man has life, there is hope.

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He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

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To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

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For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

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Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.

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We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

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Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

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If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

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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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Hunger is the best sauce.

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It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

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Endless money forms the sinews of war. [Lat., Nervi belli pecunia infinita.]

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

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