Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.

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It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.

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No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.

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There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.

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It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

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Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

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Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.

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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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No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

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Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

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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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The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.

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Hatred is inveterate anger.

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Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?

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Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.

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Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.

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No one dances sober, unless he is insane.

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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

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Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)

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He has no worse enemy than himself.

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