Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.... Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. Don't wait till freedom is gone before you enjoy, value, support, protect and make the most of it!

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

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Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

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It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

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In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.

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I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

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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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To some extent I liken slavery to death.

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You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.

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In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.

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He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.

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For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.

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So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.

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Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

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If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.

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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

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Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione quidem violari fas fuit.]

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

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

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Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?

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