Quotes from Cicero

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

To the sick while there is life there is hope.

The precept "Know yourself " was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind but likewise that we might understand our own worth.

O temporal O mores! O what times! what morals!

Quamquam scripsit artem rhetorieam Cleanthes, Chrysippus etiam, sed sic, ut si quis obmutescere concupierit, nihil aliud legere debeat.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.

No man in his senses will dance.

Man is his own worst enemy.

What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

Hatred is settled anger.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of wha. I do not know.

No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

To live long, it is necessary to live slowly.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.