Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.

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There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover the infinity of things, the immensity of Nature, the heavens, the earth, and the seas; this is that branch which has taught us religion, moderation, magnanimity, and that has rescued the soul from obscurity; to make her see all things above and below, first and last, and between both; it is this that furnishes us wherewith to live well and happily, and guides us to pass our lives without displeasure and without offence.

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This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

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Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

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It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.

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Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

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For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

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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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Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

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Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.

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Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

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Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

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No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

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In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

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If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

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...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life.

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Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]

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Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.

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