Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

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No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

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In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

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Dogs wait for us faithfully.

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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

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He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

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Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

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No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.

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Man's life is ruled by fortune, not by wisdom.

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He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.

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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

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Freedom is participation in power.

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If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.

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It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

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When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.

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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

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We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.

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

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Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.

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The science of love is the philosophy of the heart

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