Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.

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He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

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The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong

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I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

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The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

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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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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

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Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

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Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good.

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The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.

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To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.

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There is no life without friendship

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It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.

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What is dignity without honesty?

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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

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If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

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If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

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Not to know what happened before means to remain forever a child.

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We all are imbued with the love of praise.

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