History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal! — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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
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
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
This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer… — 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
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
No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character. — 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
I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age. — 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
To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Lat., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.] — 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
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
The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die. — 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
Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. — 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
The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life. — 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