Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

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Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]

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What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

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What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

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The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.

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Ability without honor is useless.

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

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If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

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Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

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When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.

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Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

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He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.

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It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.

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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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Dogs wait for us faithfully.

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These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.

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Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

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Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.

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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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