Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. [Lat., Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Cicero is dead! Cicero is born! The laughter has filled me, filled me so very completely. I am the laughter. I am… — 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
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
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 authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world. — 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
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
Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself. — 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
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