Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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

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A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

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There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

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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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This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.

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Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.

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If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

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Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

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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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Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.'

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Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

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There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.

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Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

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Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]

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The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.

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Life without learning is death.

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It is a great thing to know your vices.

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In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.

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Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.

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