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
History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive… — 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
Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty. — 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
The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living. — 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
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and… — 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
Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. .… — 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
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
Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.] — 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
