Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish.

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Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.

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Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

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This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

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There is in fact a true law namely right reason, which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men and is unchangeable and eternal. ... It will not lay down one rule at Rome and another at Athens, nor will it be one rule today and another tomorrow. But there will be one law eternal and unchangeable binding all times and upon all peoples.

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Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

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He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.

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All great men are partially inspired.

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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

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When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree!

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Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year.

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Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

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The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.

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Old age is by nature rather talkative.

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When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.

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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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But as to the affection which anyone may have for us, it is the first demand of duty that we do most for him who loves us most; but we should measure affection, not like youngsters, by the ardour of its passion, but rather by its strength and constancy.

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All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

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