Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

To live long, live slowly.

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The more laws, the less justice.

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Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

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Can you also, Lucullus, affirm that there is any power united with wisdom and prudence which has made, or, to use your own expression, manufactured man? What sort of a manufacture is that? Where is it exercised? when? why? how?

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While the sick man has life, there is hope.

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The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.

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He he he... Crazy? Cicero? He he he he! That's... madness.

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No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

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To live long it is necessary to live slowly.

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In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.

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Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. [Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis elui potest.]

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

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The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.

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No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]

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Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.

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Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.

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No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.

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The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.

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There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

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Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

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