Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

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We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

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Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

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A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

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More laws, less justice.

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Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]

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No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind. [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]

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I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

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It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.

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Studies are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad; they are companions by night, and in travel, and in the country.

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It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.

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If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

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A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.

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A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.

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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

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The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

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More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.

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