Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

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Like readily consorts with like.

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He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

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Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.

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Hatred is settled anger.

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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.

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Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.

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So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.

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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

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Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

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This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

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Let the soldier yield to the civilian.

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Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

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Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

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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?

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Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

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It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

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Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.

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