Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity.

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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

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In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it.

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Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.

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They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.

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Life is short, but art lives forever.

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Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

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It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.

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Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]

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In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight of the argument. Indeed the authority of those who set out to teach is often an impediment to those who wish to learn. They cease to use their own judgment and regard as gospel whatever is put forward by their chosen teacher.

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The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

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Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

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All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

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The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong

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Man is his own worst enemy.

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These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.

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I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.

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The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

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