Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes (428 Quotes)


    Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great Authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.




    It's an exciting concept and we hope it will become a buzz of any town large or small.


    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.




    In friendship we find nothing false or insincere everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.

    It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.


    ... for until that God who rules all the region of the sky ... has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed....

    For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

    Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.


    Every evil in the bud is easily crushed As it grows older, it becomes stronger.



    We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

    Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

    Said of the Catilinarian conspirators They have lived (They are dead) Vixerunt.


    It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.


    There is no sanctuary so holy that money cannot profane it, no fortress so strong that money cannot take it by storm


    I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.





    This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.



    The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions.


    But the effort, the effort And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.




    For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

    According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.









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