Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.

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Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.

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I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.

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For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.

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Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

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Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons lives from violence of any and every kind by all means within their power.

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

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Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

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Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

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Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

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Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

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Do nothing twice over.

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The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

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Laws are silent in time of war.

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Man must suffer to be wise.

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Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.

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In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.

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The popular breeze - Aura popularis

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For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

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