Cicero

Quotes

• “Itaque adulescentes mihi mori sic videntur, ut cum aquae multitudine flammae vis opprimitur, senes autem sic, ut cum sua...”
• “Omnino, ut mihi quidem videtur studiorum omnium satietas vitae facit satietatem. Sunt pueritiae studia certa: num igitur...”
• “Cicero discusses justice as the second of the four cardinal virtues (wisdom, justice, courage, and temperance) whose pre...”
• “Interestingly, Cicero saw the root of benevolence and charity in conscience, and in fact was the first scholar in histor...”
• “Supposedly from De Oratore, 78 ("...for women more easily preserve the ancient language unaltered, because, not having e...”
• “The origin of this quote is often misattributed to Cicero; however, it is from Line 135-136 of Book 2, Satire 2 by Horac...”
• “Multorum autem odiis nullas opes posse obsistere, si antea fuit ignotum, nuper est cognitum. Nec vero huius tyranni solu...”
• “Nulla igitur in caelo nec fortuna nec temeritas nec erratio nec vanitas inest contraque omnis ordo veritas ratio constan...”
• “Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in thei...”
• “Denique isto bono utare, dum adsit, cum absit, ne requiras: nisi forte adulescentes pueritiam, paulum aetate progressi a...”
• “A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures ...”
• “After death the sensation is either pleasant or there is none at all. But this should be thought on from our youth up, s...”
• “It was not, therefore, without good reason that his own contemporaries spoke of his "sovereignty" at the bar, and that f...”
• “Ita pulcherrima illa et maxime naturali carent amicitia per se et propter se expetita nec ipsi sibi exemplo sunt, haec v...”
• “Alternate translation (Falconer): But how blessed it is for the soul, after having, as it were, finished its campaigns o...”
• “Taylor Caldwell in her novel based on the life of Cicero, A Pillar of Iron (1965), p. 483 of the 1965 edition published ...”
• “Quid tandem erat causae, cur in senatum hesterno die tam acerbe cogerer? Solusne aberam, an non saepe minus frequentes f...”
• “O ye immortal Gods, where on earth are we? In what city are we living? What republic is ours? There are here,-here in ou...”
• “Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? Bu...”
• “Actual example from Second Catiline Oration: "But why are we speaking so long about one enemy; and about that enemy who ...”
• “What! You would convict me from my own words, and bring against me what I had said or written elsewhere. You may act in ...”
• “But of what immense worth is it for the soul to be with itself, to live, as the phrase is, with itself, discharged from ...”
• “Post mortem quidem sensus aut optandus aut nullus est. Sed hoc meditatum ab adulescentia debet esse mortem ut neglegamus...”
• “And, indeed, when I reflect on this subject I find four reasons why old age appears to be unhappy: first, that it withdr...”
• “Should they answer that, if impunity were assured, they would do what was most to their selfish interest, that would be ...”
• “Cf. René Descartes' "On ne sauroit rien imaginer de si étranger et si peu croyable, qu'il n'ait été dit par quelqu'un de...”
• “O di inmortales! ubinam gentium sumus? in qua urbe vivimus? quam rem publicam habemus? Hic, hic sunt in nostro numero, p...”
• “For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is ri...”
• “Zoroaster, Pythagoras, Epicharmus, Empedocles, Kebes, Euripides, Plato, Euclid, Philo, Boethius, Virgil, Marcus Cicero, ...”
• “Quare non inmerito ab hominibus aetatis suae regnare in iudiciis dictus est, apud posteros vero id consecutus ut Cicero ...”
• “The evil was not in bread and circuses, per se, but in the willingness of the people to sell their rights as free men fo...”
• “The Political Works of Marcus Tullius Cicero: Comprising his Treatise on the Commonwealth; and his Treatise on the Laws....”
• “And what can be more divine than the exhalations of the earth, which affect the human soul so as to enable her to predic...”
• “How few philosophers are to be found who are such in character, so ordered in soul and in life, as reason demands; who r...”
• “Etenim, cum complector animo, quattuor reperio causas, cur senectus misera videatur: unam, quod avocet a rebus gerendis;...”
• “Variant translation: Above all, the search after truth and its eager pursuit are peculiar to man. And so, when we have l...”
• “In truth, O judges, while I wish to be adorned with every virtue, yet there is nothing which I can esteem more highly th...”
• “Suggested to be from Pro Caelio (ch. xix, sec. 45: "...in that branch of study you saw not only his genius shine forth, ...”
• “Ronald Reagan, in the second presidential debate of 1984, responding to a question challenging his fitness, being "the o...”
• “Quotus enim quisque philosophorum invenitur, qui sit ita moratus, ita animo ac vita constitutus, ut ratio postulat? qui ...”
• “I will speak in a low voice, just so as to let the judges hear me. For men are not wanting who would be glad to excite t...”
• “Book I, section 18; J. W. Jones, A Translation of all the Greek, Latin, Italian, and French Quotations which occur in Bl...”
• “Variant translation: "When, O Catiline, do you mean to cease abusing our patience?" by Charles Duke Yonge (M. Tullius Ci...”
• “Book I, Chapter 55; J. W. Jones, A Translation of all the Greek, Latin, Italian, and French Quotations which Occur in Bl...”
• “Can you also, Lucullus, affirm that there is any power united with wisdom and prudence which has made, or, to use your o...”
• “While there are two ways of contending, one by discussion, the other by force, the former belonging properly to man, the...”
• “Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual ...”
• “A: I think pain the greatest of all evils.M: Greater than disgrace ?A: That indeed I dare not affirm; and yet I am asham...”
• “As if, in the view of good, brave, and high-minded men, there could be any nobler motive for entering public life than t...”
• “Etiamne hoc adfirmare potes, Luculle, esse aliquam vim, cum prudentia et consilio scilicet, quae finxerit vel, ut tuo ve...”