Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

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Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

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But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.

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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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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

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Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.

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We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means.

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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

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If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.

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I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.

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Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

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The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

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"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."

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These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.

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To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

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In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.

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Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

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What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

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All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

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Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.

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