Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home. [Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.]

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Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.

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

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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

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There is in fact a true law namely right reason, which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men and is unchangeable and eternal. ... It will not lay down one rule at Rome and another at Athens, nor will it be one rule today and another tomorrow. But there will be one law eternal and unchangeable binding all times and upon all peoples.

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As I breathe, I hope.

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The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

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I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.

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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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The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

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Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

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The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

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For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

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The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?

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I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.

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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

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The remembrance of past misery is sweet.

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They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

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All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

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