Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

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Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.

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A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

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To some extent I liken slavery to death.

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No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

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I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.

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Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.

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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.

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It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.

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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

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The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

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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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The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.

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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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An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home. [Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.]

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A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

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That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!

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Life is nothing without friendship.

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The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.

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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

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