History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable?… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
We must be ever on the search for some persons whom we shall love and who will love us in return. If… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Lat., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home. [Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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
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
