Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.

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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 works of nature must all be accounted good.

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Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

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The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.

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Old age by nature is rather talkative.

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To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.

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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]

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The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

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I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead. [Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.]

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In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight of the argument. Indeed the authority of those who set out to teach is often an impediment to those who wish to learn. They cease to use their own judgment and regard as gospel whatever is put forward by their chosen teacher.

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

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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.

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For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

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The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.

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There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.

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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

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As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.

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What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.

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