Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain.

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

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To live long it is necessary to live slowly.

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Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

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All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

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They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with blond hair. I would not be in the least bit surprised if these people would not some day become deadly to the human race.

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Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.

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For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

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Life without learning is death.

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Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.

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Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.

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What is more agreeable than one's home?

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Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

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It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'

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I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

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No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.

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Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

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From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world.

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The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

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To some extent I liken slavery to death.

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