Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

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Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?

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For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms.

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This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

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That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]

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Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]

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We are not born for ourselves alone.

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There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

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Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

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No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.

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Nothing quite new is perfect.

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Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead in a low voice so that only the judges may hear, for instigators are not lacking to stir up the crowd against me, and against all the best citizens. To scorn, in the interest of the Republic, this multitude of Jews so often turbulent in the assemblies shows a singular strength of mind. The money is in the Treasury; they do not accuse us of theft; they seek to stir up hatreds.

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The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.

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Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

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It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.

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I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

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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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No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

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I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]

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