Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.

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No sane man will dance.

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Man's best support is a very dear friend.

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Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

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If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

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The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.

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There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

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It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

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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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Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

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Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

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Hunger is the best sauce.

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It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

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There is nothing which God cannot do. [Lat., Nihil est quod deus efficere non possit.]

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We make allowance for necessity.

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There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

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Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

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These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

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