Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?

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It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.

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Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

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I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

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Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.

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In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.

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To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.

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There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

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Strain every nerve to gain your point.

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

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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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Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

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Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

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Whatever you do, do with all your might.

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In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music.

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All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

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Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?

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It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.

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No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

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