Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.

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Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

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The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

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Nature has inclined us to love men.

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The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.

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For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms.

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The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.

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As you have sown so shall you reap.

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He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.

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In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.

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

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We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.

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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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Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.

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The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

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I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

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Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]

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O philosophy, you leader of life.

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A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

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