Quotes from Marcus Tullius Cicero

Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.

To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.

Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow

If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.

Life without learning is death.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.

Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.

Life is short, but art lives forever.

In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.

History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.

I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

History is the teacher of life

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.