Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Men of different tastes have different pursuits.

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It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

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So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!

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Kindness is produced by kindness.

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When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.

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Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

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What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

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Old age by nature is rather talkative.

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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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Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.

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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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If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

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Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.

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The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.

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This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

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All great men are partially inspired.

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Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

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Falsehoods border on truths.

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As I breathe, I hope.

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It is a great thing to know your vices.

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