Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

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We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.

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Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.

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Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest.

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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. [Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.]

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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

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Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain.

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The first bond of society is marriage.

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We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

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O philosophy, you leader of life.

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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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Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

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Men of different tastes have different pursuits.

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The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

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No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

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A letter does not blush.

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So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!

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Let your desires be ruled by reason.

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