Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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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Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.

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I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

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No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

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Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).

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When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

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The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

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Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

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To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

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The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.

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

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

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It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.

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I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

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The human mind ever longs for occupation.

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I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home. [Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]

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The remembrance of past misery is sweet.

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There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

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For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

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