Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

To-morrow will give some food for thought.

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When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.

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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.

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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

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This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods.

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I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

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The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.

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What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

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In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.

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Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.

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It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

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Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

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There is no thing which God cannot accomplish.

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The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.

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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

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In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.

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Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

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Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]

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It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.

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An ancient custom obtains force of nature.

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