Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

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Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

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We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.

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We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

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For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

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If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

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I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

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Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

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The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

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An ancient custom obtains force of nature.

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Philosophy is the true mother of science.

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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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Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]

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The science of love is the philosophy of the heart

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Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons lives from violence of any and every kind by all means within their power.

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A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.

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

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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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If wisdom be attainable, let us not only win but enjoy it.

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