Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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

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Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit

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There is no moment without some duty.

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To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

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Honor is the reward of virtue.

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There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.]

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The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

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For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

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Let your desires be ruled by reason.

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He who suffers, remembers.

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

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It is a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.

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There is no thing which God cannot accomplish.

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The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

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The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

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Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

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Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

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Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue.

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History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.

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