Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Virtue is its own reward.

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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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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

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We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

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"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"

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Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

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

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Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood.

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For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

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O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]

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Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.

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The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

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

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Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.

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It is necessary for a Senator to be thoroughly acquainted with the constitution; and this is a knowledge of the most extensive nature; a matter of science, of diligence, of reflection, without which no Senator can possibly be fit for his office.

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It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

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Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]

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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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A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.

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