Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]

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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

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He who suffers, remembers.

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The foundation of justice is good faith.

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If anyone cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of feeling at all. From the enduring wonder of the heavens flows all grace and power. If anyone thinks it is mindless then he himself must be out of his mind.

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Every animal loves itself.

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Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

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To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.

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I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

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We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

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Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.

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Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.

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For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.

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Nothing quite new is perfect.

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Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

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The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.

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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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Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.

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Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]

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What is permissible is not always honorable.

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