Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

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

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The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]

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For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

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Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

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It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

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As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.

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That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]

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Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

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Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

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Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

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I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.

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For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life.

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There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.

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No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.

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Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.

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Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.

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I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

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If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

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