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
The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious. — 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
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
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
It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed. — 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
For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our… — 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
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
Old age has been charged with being insensible to pleasure and to enjoyments arising from the gratification of the senses, a most… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what… — 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
“I have the better right to indulgence herein, because my devotion to letters strengthens my oratorical powers, and these, such as they… — 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
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
