Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.

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Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge.

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No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.

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If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.

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Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.

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An unjust peace is better than a just war.

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I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.

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That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

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It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

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Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

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I am never less alone than when alone.

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Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

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Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.

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Let the soldier yield to the civilian.

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The works of nature must all be accounted good.

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When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

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

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Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

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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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The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

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