Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

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Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

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Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

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The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.

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Through doubt we arrive at the truth.

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People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.... Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. Don't wait till freedom is gone before you enjoy, value, support, protect and make the most of it!

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In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.

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The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized.

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In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

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Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

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Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

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The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

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There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.

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It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.

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The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.

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Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

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Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.

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Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

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The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

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