Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.

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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

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That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.

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Unraveling the web of Penelope.

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For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life.

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All soils are not fertile.

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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

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Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity.

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The precept, "Know yourself," was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind; but likewise that we might understand our own worth.

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No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

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If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.

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Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]

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

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How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

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

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I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home. [Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

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As I breathe, I hope.

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I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

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