Quotes by Cicero, Marcus T.

"The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves."

Cicero, Marcus T. on history and historians
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"Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge."

Cicero, Marcus T. on history and historians
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"There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace."

Cicero, Marcus T. on home
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"Honor is the reward of virtue."

Cicero, Marcus T. on honor   

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"Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature."

Cicero, Marcus T. on honor   

"To the sick, while there is life there is hope."

Cicero, Marcus T. on hope
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"I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know."

Cicero, Marcus T. on ignorance
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"A community is like the ones who govern it."

Cicero, Marcus T. on influence   

"There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration."

Cicero, Marcus T. on inspiration   

"The foundation of justice is good faith."

Cicero, Marcus T. on justice   

"Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense."

Cicero, Marcus T. on justice   

"Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom."

Cicero, Marcus T. on knowledge   

"The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free."

Cicero, Marcus T. on law and lawyers   

"The good of the people is the greatest law."

Cicero, Marcus T. on law and lawyers
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"The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct."

Cicero, Marcus T. on learning
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"He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing."

Cicero, Marcus T. on leisure   

"A letter does not blush."

Cicero, Marcus T. on letters   

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"Peace is liberty in tranquillity."

Cicero, Marcus T. on liberty   

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

Cicero, Marcus T. on lies and lying   

"While there's life, there's hope."

Cicero, Marcus T. on life
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"What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us."

Cicero, Marcus T. on animals
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"When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff."

Cicero, Marcus T. on argument   

"A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him."

Cicero, Marcus T. on manners   

"The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise."

Cicero, Marcus T. on masses   

"Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things."

Cicero, Marcus T. on memory   

"Sweet is the memory of past troubles."

Cicero, Marcus T. on memory
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"Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine."

Cicero, Marcus T. on mind   

"All things tend to corrupt perverted minds."

Cicero, Marcus T. on mind   

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

Cicero, Marcus T. on mistakes
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"The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil."

Cicero, Marcus T. on moderation
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"There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it."

Cicero, Marcus T. on money   

"The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind."

Cicero, Marcus T. on nations   

"No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion."

Cicero, Marcus T. on opinions   

"Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience."

Cicero, Marcus T. on ostentation   

"All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief."

Cicero, Marcus T. on pain
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"The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated."

Cicero, Marcus T. on pain
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"He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason."

Cicero, Marcus T. on passion   

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

Cicero, Marcus T. on peace
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"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."

Cicero, Marcus T. on persuasion   

"There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it."

Cicero, Marcus T. on philosophers and philosophy