I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. [Lat., Mature fieri senem,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Scurrility has no object in view but incivility; if it is uttered from feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse; if it… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal....… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
No power is strong enough to be lasting, if it labours under the weight of fear. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If anyone cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If some lose their whole fortunes, they will drag many more down with them . . . believe me that the whole… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time?… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first;… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
