Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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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In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.

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There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

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Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

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Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?

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Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

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Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

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

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While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.

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I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.

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That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

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Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

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Life is short, but art lives forever.

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This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

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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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They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.

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Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

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For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

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The spirit is the true self.

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