Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.”

“The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.”

“Peace is liberty in tranquillity.”

“To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.”

“People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.”

“When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.”

“Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.”

“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.”

“Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.”

“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.”