Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

While there's life, there's hope.

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Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

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If wisdom be attainable, let us not only win but enjoy it.

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For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.

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Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.

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Hatred is inveterate anger.

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Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

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It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

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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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Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

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That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!

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In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

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It is pleasant to recall past troubles.

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The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.

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I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

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Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

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

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If anyone cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of feeling at all. From the enduring wonder of the heavens flows all grace and power. If anyone thinks it is mindless then he himself must be out of his mind.

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It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

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Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)

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