Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

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No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god. [Lat., Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans; aut temperans, voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest.]

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If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

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I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.

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Peace is freedom in tranquility.

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Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.

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There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

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Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.

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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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I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.

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Old age by nature is rather talkative.

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The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

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We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.

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Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.

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For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.

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What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.

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Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

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Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

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

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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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