Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.

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To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.

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The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

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The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.

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Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.

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

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I am never less alone than when alone.

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They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.

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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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Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year.

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The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]

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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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It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

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Opinionum enim commenta delet dies; naturæ judicia confirmat. Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality.

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Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.

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Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

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But as to the affection which anyone may have for us, it is the first demand of duty that we do most for him who loves us most; but we should measure affection, not like youngsters, by the ardour of its passion, but rather by its strength and constancy.

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Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.

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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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Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.

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