Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.

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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

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

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O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]

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To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Lat., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

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How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

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The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

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Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

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An ancient custom obtains force of nature.

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Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.

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Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

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What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

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The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.

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To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]

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Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.

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There were poets before Homer.

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A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

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Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed.

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