Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow

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The aim of justice is to give everyone his due.

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To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

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The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

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He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

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It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.

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Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

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Genius is fostered by industry.

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Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

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I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God

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

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I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.

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No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]

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Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

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Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.

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A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant.

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Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

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