Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Past Quotes , Years Quotes

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Education Quotes , Teacher Quotes

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Truth Quotes , Philosophical Quotes

The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Parent Quotes , Modesty Quotes

The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Men Quotes , Law Quotes

No man in his senses will dance.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Men Quotes , Dancing Quotes

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Moving Quotes , Tyrants Quotes

Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Drinking Quotes , Men Quotes

The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Hands Quotes , Order Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Men Quotes , Age Quotes

To freemen, threats are impotent.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Freedom Quotes , Threat Quotes

Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Men Quotes , Disposition Quotes

Man must suffer to be wise.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Wise Quotes , Men Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Children Quotes , Teaching Quotes

The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Freedom Quotes , Recovery Quotes

It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Grief Quotes , Happens Quotes

That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Offering Quotes , Rewards Quotes

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , God Quotes , Giving Quotes

No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Death Quotes , Country Quotes

There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Friends Quotes , Ties Quotes