Quotes by
Cicero |
Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 BC , Roman orator & statesman
Marcus Tullius Cicero (English byname Tully was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and writer who vainly tried to uphold republican principles in the final civil wars that destroyed the Roman Republic. His writings include books of rhetoric, orations, philosophical and political treatises, and letters. He is remembered in modern times as the greatest Roman orator.
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Quotations
| • | Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one. 44 |
| • | To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child. 25 |
| • | If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. 22 |
| • | There is nothing so absurd that it has not been said by some philosopher. 9 |
| • | In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done. 9 |
| • | We are not born for ourselves alone; a part of us is claimed by our nation, another part by our friends. 7 |
| • | No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year. 6 |
| • | Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. 5 |
| • | If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third. 4 |
| • | We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition. 3 |
| • | The two conditions that lead others to languor – i.e. leisure and solitude – him made sharper. (on Scipio) 3 |
| • | What kind of favour is it to abstain from doing evil? 2 |
Latin Quotes
| • | Always the same. Semper idem. 64 |
| • | We are not born for ourselves alone. Non nobis solum nati sumus. 51 |
| • | Nobody dances sober, unless maybe he is insane. Nemo enim fere saltat sobrius, nisi forte insanus. 50 |
| • | Money is the soul of war. Pecunia nervus belli. 46 |
| • | The beginnings of all things are small. Omnium rerum principia parva sunt. 44 |
| • | We are slaves of the law in order to be free. Legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus. 42 |
| • | They lived. Vixere. (after the execution of the participants in the Catilinarian conspiracy; meaning: “they are dead”) 41 |
| • | O, the times! O, the morals! O tempora! Ο mores! 38 |
| • | The welfare of the people is the ultimate law. Salus populi suprema lex. 29 |
| • | To be rather than to seem. Esse quam videri. 29 |
| • | Law stands mute in the midst of arms. Inter arma silent leges. 27 |
| • | To what length will you abuse our patience, Catiline? Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? (in the first of his four Catiline Orations) 19 |
| • | What has been wrongly gained is wrongly lost. Male parta male dilabuntur. 17 |
| • | Let arms yield to the toga. Cedant arma togae. (meaning: let military power give way to civil power) 8 |
