Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.

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Diligence which, as it avails in all things, is also of the utmost moment in pleading causes. Diligence is to be particularly cultivated by us; it is to be constantly exerted; it is capable of effecting almost everything.

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History is the teacher of life

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

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In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.

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There is no moment without some duty.

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To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.

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Everyone has his besetting sin.

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There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

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Can you also, Lucullus, affirm that there is any power united with wisdom and prudence which has made, or, to use your own expression, manufactured man? What sort of a manufacture is that? Where is it exercised? when? why? how?

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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. [Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.]

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A man has no enemy worse than himself.

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A letter does not blush.

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No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]

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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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Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.

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I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

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An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy).

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Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]

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

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