Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The most evident difference between man and animals is this: the beast, in as much as it is largely motivated by the senses and with little perception of the past or future, lives only for the present. But man, because he is endowed with reason by which he is able to perceive relationships, sees the causes of things, understands the reciprocal nature of cause and effect, makes analogies, easily surveys the whole course of his life, and makes the necessary preparations for its conduct.

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What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

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For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.

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Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory of our empire, the dignity of our name, the customs of our ancestors.

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Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.

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Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

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

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It is a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.

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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

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Justice renders to every one his due.

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The first bond of society is marriage.

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Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

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The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.

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Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.

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I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

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Like readily consorts with like.

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Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.

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Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.

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In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.

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