Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

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Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word.

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Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. [Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis elui potest.]

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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

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No power is strong enough to be lasting, if it labours under the weight of fear.

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There is no life without friendship

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Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

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Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.

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In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

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Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

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Virtue is its own reward.

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Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge.

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Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]

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For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than #‎ agriculture

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For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.

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We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

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A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.

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For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

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The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

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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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