Quotes from Cicero

The beginnings of all things are small.

Wat kan in de bezigheden der mensen van belang lijken voor een man die de eeuwigheid voor ogen houdt en zich bewust is van de uitgestrektheid van het universum?

Quid? Quod eadem mente res dissimillimas comprehendimus, ut colorem saporem, calorem, odorem, sonum? Quae numquam quinque nuntiis animus cognosceret, nisi ad eum omnia referrentur et is omnium iudex solus esset.

Non nobis solum. OR non nobis solum nati sumus ortusque nostri partem patria vindicat, partem amici (Not for us alone are we born; our country, our friends, have a share in us)

Historia vero testis temporum, lux veritatis, vita memoriae, magistra vitae. History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the mistress of life.

There is nothing so absurd that it has not been said by some philosopher.

In anger, nothing right nor judicious can be done.

statuere enim qui sit sapiens vel maxime videtur esse sapientis

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...

T?cerea face parte din conversa?ie.

The man who has a garden and a library has everything.

What he sees often, he does not wonder at, even if he does not know why it is. If something happens which he has not seen before, he thinks it a prodigy.

Sapientia autem est, ut a veteribus philosophis definitum est, rerum divinarum et humanarum causarumque, quibus eae res continentur, scientia, cuius studium qui vituperat haud sane intellego quidnam sit quod laudandum putet.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift.

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very often his countenance, are deceitful, and his speech is most commonly a lie.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.