Quotes from Marcus Tullius Cicero

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

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 rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

O philosophy, you leader of life.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

There were poets before Homer.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

He has departed, withdrawn, gone away, broken out.

No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

No Sane man will dance.

Not to know the events which happened before one was born, that is to remain always a boy.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas. (No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars.)

The spirit is the true self.

There is no place more delightful than home.