“Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.”
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Famous Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
Source: Cicero's Three Books Of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate
“Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.”
“History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.”
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.”
Source: Political Speeches
“Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.”
Source: Cicero in twenty-nine volumes
“Be a pattern to others and then all will go well.”
Source: Thoughts of Cicero, on the Following Subjects, Viz. I. Religion. II. Man ... XII. Miscellaneous Thoughts. First Published in Latin and French by the Abbé D'Olivet; and Now Translated Into English, with Notes [by Alexander Wishart].
“The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.”
“Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.”
“Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.”
“Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.”
“No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.”
“Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.”
“A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.”
“Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.”
“No power is strong enough to be lasting, if it labours under the weight of fear.”
“Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.”
“It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.”
“Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.”