Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

. . . 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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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

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What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.

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Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

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It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

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Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.

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Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself. [Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]

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Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.

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As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.

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There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

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The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

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It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.

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Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

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Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

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We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

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Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]

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The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

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All things are full of God.

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Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

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As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.

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