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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Laws are silent in times of war.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. (To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.)”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Philippics
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“For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Politicians are not born; they are excreted.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Senectute, De Amicitia
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“What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Life is nothing without friendship.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“While there's life, there's hope.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“It is a great thing to know your vices.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“A man of courage is also full of faith.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Freedom is participation in power.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“A friend is a second self”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
(Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, deerit nihil.)”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Letters to His Friends, Vol 2: Books 7-12
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“When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Never injure a friend, even in jest.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Divinatione
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“It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Ability without honor is useless.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“As for myself, I can only exhort you to look on Friendship as the most valuable of all human possessions, no other being equally suited to the moral nature of man, or so applicable to every state and circumstance, whether of prosperity or adversity, in which he can possibly be placed. But at the same time I lay it down as a fundamental axiom that "true Friendship can only subsist between those who are animated by the strictest principles of honour and virtue." When I say this, I would not be thought to adopt the sentiments of those speculative moralists who pretend that no man can justly be deemed virtuous who is not arrived at that state of absolute perfection which constitutes, according to their ideas, the character of genuine wisdom. This opinion may appear true, perhaps, in theory, but is altogether inapplicable to any useful purpose of society, as it supposes a degree of virtue to which no mortal was ever capable of rising.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Amicitia
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“Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Selected Works
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“Endless money forms the sinews of war.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions...It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Dogs wait for us faithfully.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language. ”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“A man of faith is also full of courage”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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