Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

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Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

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Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

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What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

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Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

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The sinews of war are infinite money.

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Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

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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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To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

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The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong

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There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

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The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

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Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.

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The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.

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Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.

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To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. [Lat., Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti.]

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Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue.

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Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones.

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Not to know what happened before means to remain forever a child.

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