Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight of the argument. Indeed the authority of those who set out to teach is often an impediment to those who wish to learn. They cease to use their own judgment and regard as gospel whatever is put forward by their chosen teacher.

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In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

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

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What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

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Like associates with like.

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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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Hatred is inveterate anger.

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We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.

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Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.

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What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

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I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

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They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with blond hair. I would not be in the least bit surprised if these people would not some day become deadly to the human race.

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It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

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Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]

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Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

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There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

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Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones.

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The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

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