Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

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Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

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The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.

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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.

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A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

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The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.

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Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

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A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

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Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

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There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.

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Hatred is a settled anger.

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Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.

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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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The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.

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This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

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The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

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Tall oaks grow from little acorns.Testing. This is the text of an item. Testing. Origin. Testing. Quoted. Testing. Source. The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

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What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

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Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

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The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

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