Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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

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To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.

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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

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To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. [Lat., Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti.]

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What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.

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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

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We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.

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Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

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The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.

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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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Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain.

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What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

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Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.

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If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.

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Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.

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Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

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Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

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