Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.

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We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

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Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion.

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For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

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An unjust peace is better than a just war.

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I am never less alone than when alone.

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

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Life is nothing without friendship.

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Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

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Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.

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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

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How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

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Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

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Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.

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Honor is the reward of virtue.

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The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.

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

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Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

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In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.

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