Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

What is permissible is not always honorable.

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It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.

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Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.

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Leisure with dignity.

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He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.

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An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.

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What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.

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

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Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

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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.

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Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.

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It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

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

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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

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Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

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God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.

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Be a pattern to others and then all will go well.

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When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

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For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

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Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

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