Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

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There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

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The popular breeze - Aura popularis

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We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.

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Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

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A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.

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The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

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Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

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

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When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.

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Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

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Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

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There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

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A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

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If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.

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The forehead is the gate of the mind.

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You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.

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There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

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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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