Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.

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Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

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The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]

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People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.... Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. Don't wait till freedom is gone before you enjoy, value, support, protect and make the most of it!

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

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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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If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

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Leisure with dignity.

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Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

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The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.

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What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

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To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.

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In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

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It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

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We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.

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Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

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A s laws multiply, injustice increases.

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The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.

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There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

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It is better to receive than to do injury.

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