Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.
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We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.
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Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
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The sinews of war are infinite money.
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Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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More law, less justice.
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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.
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The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
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In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
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Nature abhors annihilation.
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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
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People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
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Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
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I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
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Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
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Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
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The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
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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.
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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.