Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.

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Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.

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What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.

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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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Let your desires be ruled by reason.

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For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?

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To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]

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There were poets before Homer.

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Falsehoods border on truths.

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That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God

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Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

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He is rich who wishes no more than he has.

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Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

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Let us not go over the old ground but rather prepare for what is to come.

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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

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

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The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

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The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.

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