Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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Cicero is dead! Cicero is born! The laughter has filled me, filled me so very completely. I am the laughter. I am the jester. The soul that has served as my constant companion for so long has breached the veil of the Void finally and forever. It is now in me. It is me. The world has seen the last of Cicero the man. Behold Cicero, Fool of Hearts - laughter incarnate!

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We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.

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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

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In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

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No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.

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Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

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The spirit is the true self.

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Freedom is participation in power.

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We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.

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The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?

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What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]

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Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.

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

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Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

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Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)

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The wise man never loses his temper.

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Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

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Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.

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