Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

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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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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

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It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to find out and persevere in the truth. On the other hand, to be imposed upon, to mistake, to falter, and to be deceived, is as ungraceful as to rave or to be insane.

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He is rich who wishes no more than he has.

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Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

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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 a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

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A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.

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True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.

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The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]

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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

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This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods.

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I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.

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From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world.

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Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

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Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.

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That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.

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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.

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