Cicero Quotes

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

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

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

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 antiquity.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

No one is so old that he does not expect to live another year.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.

If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Cicero Quotes part 2

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

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

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool persists in error.

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

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.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

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

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

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

To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.

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

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock.

Live as though you farewell soon.

It is exercise alone that supports the spirits and keeps the mind in vigor.

I never admired another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one.

What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.