Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.

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Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

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To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

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I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.

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Friends are proved by adversity.

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Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

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There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

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No one dances sober, unless he is insane.

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Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

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There is a difference between justice and consideration in one's relations to one's fellow men. It is the function of justice not to do wrong to one's fellow men of considerateness, not to wound their feelings.

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Ability without honor is useless.

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

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A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

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The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

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There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.]

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Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.

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Hmm... That's like telling you about the cold of space, or terror of midnight. Sithis is all those things. He is... the Void.

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I hate all children of precocious talent.

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If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

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