Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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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If wisdom be attainable, let us not only win but enjoy it.

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I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.

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This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

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When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

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In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful

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The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.

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Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

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Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.

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Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

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While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.

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The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.

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It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.

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In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

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There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover the infinity of things, the immensity of Nature, the heavens, the earth, and the seas; this is that branch which has taught us religion, moderation, magnanimity, and that has rescued the soul from obscurity; to make her see all things above and below, first and last, and between both; it is this that furnishes us wherewith to live well and happily, and guides us to pass our lives without displeasure and without offence.

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Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city.

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No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.

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All things are full of God.

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The remembrance of past misery is sweet.

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Justice renders to every one his due.

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