Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.

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There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]

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All great men are partially inspired.

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Certain signs precede certain events.

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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

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If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.

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If some lose their whole fortunes, they will drag many more down with them . . . believe me that the whole system of credit and finance which is carried on here at Rome in the Forum, is inextricably bound up with the revenues of the Asiatic province. If Those revenues are destroyed, our whole system of credit will come down with a crash.

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He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

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To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

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The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

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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.

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Old age by nature is rather talkative.

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Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

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Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit

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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

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Friends, though absent, are still present.

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We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

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For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

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