Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

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No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.

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Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

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The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.

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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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He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.

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The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

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A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.

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No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

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I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.

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There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.

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It is pleasant to recall past troubles.

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Always the same thing.

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Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.

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Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.

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He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.

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There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

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An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.

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The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.

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Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

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