Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

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Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]

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He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.

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Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?

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Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.

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Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit

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Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.

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Hunger is the best sauce.

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Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

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Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge.

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Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)

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We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one.

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No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

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There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

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While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.

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It is a great thing to know your vices.

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We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.

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For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms.

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Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

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Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

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