Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god. [Lat., Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans; aut temperans, voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest.]

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Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city.

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True nobility is exempt from fear.

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If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries. [Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.]

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Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]

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The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

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The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

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There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

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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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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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For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?

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To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]

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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

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The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.

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A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

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No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.

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Peace is freedom in tranquility.

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Certain signs precede certain events.

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There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.

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We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

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