I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal… — 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
I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by… — 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 life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature. — 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
Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful. — 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