Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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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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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Hunger is the best sauce.

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

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For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

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The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.

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The popular breeze - Aura popularis

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Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.

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History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life

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It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

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The science of love is the philosophy of the heart

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

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A letter does not blush.

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The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

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Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

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What times! What manners!

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The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

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No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god. [Lat., Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans; aut temperans, voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest.]

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The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion. . . ."

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