Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

What is more agreeable than one's home?

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No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

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An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy).

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions.

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There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher.

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Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquility and peace.

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The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

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Patria est communis omnium parens. Our country is the common parent of all.

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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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No one dances sober, unless he is insane.

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Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.

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He who suffers, remembers.

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I am a Roman citizen.

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Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.

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Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]

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We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish.

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Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

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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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