Quotes By Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

While there's life, there's hope.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

Nature abhors annihilation.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Thrift is of great revenue.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

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

I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

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

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

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

No one can give you better advice than yourself.