Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

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Not to know what happened before means to remain forever a child.

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When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

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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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In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

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What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

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We all are imbued with the love of praise.

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That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.

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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

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For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

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In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done.

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He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

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To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child

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The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

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Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.

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There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

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We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one.

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A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.

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