Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.

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Our generosity never should exceed our abilities.

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Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]

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In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it.

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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.

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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

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

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Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

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In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.

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The freedom of poetic license.

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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

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The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

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For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life.

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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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I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.

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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

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I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature.

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Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

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Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.

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