Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

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The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.

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Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

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What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

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No one dances sober, unless he is insane.

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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

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Virtue is its own reward.

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The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body. [Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]

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Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.

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The wise man never loses his temper.

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An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home. [Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.]

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I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.

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The human mind ever longs for occupation.

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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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Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.

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Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

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Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

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