Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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

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

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It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'

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A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

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Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good.

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We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.

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The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men

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Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]

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There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

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The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

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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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All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

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History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

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All soils are not fertile.

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Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.

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To live long, live slowly.

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Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

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I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.

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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

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