Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
2020 While there's life, there's hope.
3797 The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
1165 It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
2164 What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
4852 To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
1078 Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)
3887 O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life.
4537 I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.
3961 We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.
1937 My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything bad which Nature makes inevitable.
1699 When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
2636 A room without books is like a body without a soul.
1901 If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
1274 Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!
1100 Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
2036 No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.
4670 In times of war, the law falls silent.
Silent enim leges inter arma
3591 Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
4389 Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. (To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.)
4645 To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
2364 To be ignorant of history is to remain always a child.
2276 I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
4948 What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
1722 Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
2775 Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
4935 Legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus
4391 Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief
3506 The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
1851 Amicitiae nostrae memoriam spero sempiternam fore
1331 n the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self......
4588 For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.
2380 The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.
4367 The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
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