Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.

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Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.

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The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

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Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.

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Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

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Work makes a callus against grief.

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Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.

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The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.

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Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest.

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

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To live long it is necessary to live slowly.

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

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Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself. [Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]

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Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

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We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means.

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I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

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Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

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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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