Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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.

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The illustrious and noble ought to place before them certain rules and regulations, not less for their hours of leisure and relaxation than for those of business.

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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

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I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.

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In the approach to virtue there are many steps.

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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

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I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

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Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.

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There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest.

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There is no place more delightful than home.

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. . . 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.

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Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.

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Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water.

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Thrift is of great revenue.

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...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life.

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We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

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There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

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Do nothing twice over.

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