Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

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To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.

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For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

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That man is guilty of impertinence who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject of his discourse, or pays no regard to the company he is in.

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My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

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Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.

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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

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Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.

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Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.

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To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child

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Let your desires be ruled by reason.

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For as the law is set over the magistrate, even so are the magistrates set over the people. And therefore, it may be truly said, "that the magistrate is a speaking law, and the law is a silent magistrate.

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There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.

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There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal.

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The most evident difference between man and animals is this: the beast, in as much as it is largely motivated by the senses and with little perception of the past or future, lives only for the present. But man, because he is endowed with reason by which he is able to perceive relationships, sees the causes of things, understands the reciprocal nature of cause and effect, makes analogies, easily surveys the whole course of his life, and makes the necessary preparations for its conduct.

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Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]

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No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

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Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.

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He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

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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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