Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.

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Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. [Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis elui potest.]

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That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!

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He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

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All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

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When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

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There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

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Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.

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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. [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare; nullius, nisi insipientis, in errore perseverae. Posteriores enim cogitationes (ut aiunt) sapientiores solent esse.]

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All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]

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A community is like the ones who govern it.

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Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city.

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In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful

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Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

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Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.

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There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover the infinity of things, the immensity of Nature, the heavens, the earth, and the seas; this is that branch which has taught us religion, moderation, magnanimity, and that has rescued the soul from obscurity; to make her see all things above and below, first and last, and between both; it is this that furnishes us wherewith to live well and happily, and guides us to pass our lives without displeasure and without offence.

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The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

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Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

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I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

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Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

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