Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The remembrance of past misery is sweet.

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But as to the affection which anyone may have for us, it is the first demand of duty that we do most for him who loves us most; but we should measure affection, not like youngsters, by the ardour of its passion, but rather by its strength and constancy.

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Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.

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It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

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Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

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Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.

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The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

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It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

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Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.

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History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

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This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.

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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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Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory of our empire, the dignity of our name, the customs of our ancestors.

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In the approach to virtue there are many steps.

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No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

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To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.

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The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion. . . ."

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Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)

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Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

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Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good.

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