Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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

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Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.

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What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.

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No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god. [Lat., Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans; aut temperans, voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest.]

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To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Lat., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]

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Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

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The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

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To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]

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The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.

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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

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Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.

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I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.

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Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

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The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

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In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.

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There is not a moment without some duty.

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For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life.

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An ancient custom obtains force of nature.

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There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside. Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior.

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There is no castle so strong that it cannot be overthrown by money.

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