Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

History is the teacher of life

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There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

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It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.

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The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.

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Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.

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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

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Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

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Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

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The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.

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What is more agreeable than one's home?

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We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

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Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

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Life without learning is death.

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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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Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.

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We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.

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There is no thing which God cannot accomplish.

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Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

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Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

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