Cicero Quotes

If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second or even the third place.

Old age especially an honoured old age has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

When you are aspiring to the highest place it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

What one has one ought to use and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

Courage is the virtue which champions the cause of right.

Thou shouldst eat to live not live to eat.

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?

To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.

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

No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.

To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all other virtues.

If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost he need never regret his limited ability.

It is fortune not wisdom that rules man's life.

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue not a companion in vice.

As in the case of wines that improve with age the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things human and divine conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

A friend is as it were a second self.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

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

To the sick while there is life there is hope.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of wha. I do not know.

No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus.

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

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

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

The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.

Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks on great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

The precept "Know yourself " was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind but likewise that we might understand our own worth.

There is something pleasurable in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

He used to raise a storm in a teapot.

The authority of those who profess to teach is often a positive hindrance to those who desire to learn.

Oh what times! Oh what standards!

Any man may make a mistake none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

O temporal O mores! O what times! what morals!

Socrates indeed when he was asked of what country he called himself said "Of the world" for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.

In time of war the laws are silent.

Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

To live is to think.

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