Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.

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Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?

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The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

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Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

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Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.

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The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

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

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Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.

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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

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Life is short, but art lives forever.

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That man is guilty of impertinence who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject of his discourse, or pays no regard to the company he is in.

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You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.

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Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.

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Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

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Frugality includes all the other virtues.

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In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.

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Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

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Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

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To live long, live slowly.

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