Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

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I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead. [Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.]

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After victory, you have more enemies.

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The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.

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Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

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It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

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There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

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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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Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

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Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.

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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

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This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

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He who suffers, remembers.

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The whole glory of virtue resides in activity.

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It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.

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Work makes a callus against grief.

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Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you, as they have done already.

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Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

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There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde; But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe; The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe.

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What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.

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