Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions.

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Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

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Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

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Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?

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In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.

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What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

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A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.

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Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

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Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

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I am a Roman citizen.

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Virtue is its own reward.

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No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.

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What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

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When war is raging the laws are dumb.

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Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

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For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.

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