Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.

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Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

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I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

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There is nothing god cannot do.

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The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

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It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.

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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

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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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Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

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Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.

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For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

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For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

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Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

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Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.

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Friends, though absent, are still present.

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Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

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No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

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Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

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