Quotes from Marcus Tullius Cicero

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.

Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

While the sick man has life, there is hope.

To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Lat., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common.

To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.

Everything is alive... Everything is interconnected.

The spirit is the true self.

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.

Probability is the very guide of life.

The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.