Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

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A community is like the ones who govern it.

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We must be ever on the search for some persons whom we shall love and who will love us in return. If good will and affection are taken away, every joy is taken from life.

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Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

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He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

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There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover the infinity of things, the immensity of Nature, the heavens, the earth, and the seas; this is that branch which has taught us religion, moderation, magnanimity, and that has rescued the soul from obscurity; to make her see all things above and below, first and last, and between both; it is this that furnishes us wherewith to live well and happily, and guides us to pass our lives without displeasure and without offence.

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This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.

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It is a great thing to know your vices.

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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

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Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?

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In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

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O tempora! O mores! O what times (are these)! what morals!

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Like readily consorts with like.

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It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

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Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.

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Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

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Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

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Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

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Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquility and peace.

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It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'

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