Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
2020While there's life, there's hope.
3797The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
1165It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
2164What 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.
4852To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
1078Sed 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.)
3887O 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.
4537I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.
3961We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.
1937My 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.
1699When 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.
2636A room without books is like a body without a soul.
1901If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
1274Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!
1100Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
2036No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.
4670In times of war, the law falls silent.
Silent enim leges inter arma
3591Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
4389Nescire 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.)
4645To 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?
2364To be ignorant of history is to remain always a child.
2276I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
4948What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
1722Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
2775Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
4935Legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus
4391Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief
3506The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
1851Amicitiae nostrae memoriam spero sempiternam fore
1331n the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self......
4588For 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.
2380The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.
4367The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
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