Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.

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Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

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To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.

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

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For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

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Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

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The human mind ever longs for occupation.

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War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]

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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

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The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.

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Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

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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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I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.

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

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Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.

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Life is short, but art lives forever.

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I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.

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Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

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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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To some extent I liken slavery to death.

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