Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

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We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish.

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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions.

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For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?

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We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

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The real friend is another self.

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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

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

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The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.

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There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.

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Through doubt we arrive at the truth.

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Hunger is the best sauce.

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Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

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Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.

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There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.

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There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest.

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If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

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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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There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

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