Statesman · Roman · 173 quotes
In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Statesman · Roman
Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.
One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
The good of the people is the greatest law.
The best interpreter of the law is custom.
To some extent I liken slavery to death.
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?
The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
A man of courage is also full of faith.
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
No obligation to do the impossible is binding.
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.
What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
What is permissible is not always honorable.
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
Whatever you do, do with all your might.
Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
Sweet is the memory of past troubles.
The sinews of war are infinite money.
Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
In time of war the laws are silent.
While there's life, there's hope.
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
Laws are silent in time of war.
Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.
True nobility is exempt from fear.
Ability without honor is useless.
Before beginning, plan carefully.
I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
Nature abhors annihilation.
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
No sane man will dance.
