Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

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Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

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A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

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Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

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We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.

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When war is raging the laws are dumb.

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The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.

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There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

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The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

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To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

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Whatever you do, do with all your might.

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I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.

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The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.

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The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

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People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

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

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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

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When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree!

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To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.

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Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]

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