Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

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To some extent I liken slavery to death.

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The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

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It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.

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The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.

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Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

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If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.

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How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!

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Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge.

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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

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There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

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Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?

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While there's life, there's hope.

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

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Strict law is often great injustice.

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Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

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What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

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Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

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Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

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