Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.

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The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion. . . ."

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Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.

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There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher.

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No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

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Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city.

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Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

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Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

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We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

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The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.

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There is no moment without some duty.

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It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

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In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

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A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.

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Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]

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I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.

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The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.

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We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.

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Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.

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Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.

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