1,226 Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

I am testis tempurum, lux veritatis, vita memorial, magistra vitae, nunita vetustatis. The Philosopher

Give me a young man in whom there is some- thing of the old, and an old man with something of the young: guided so, a man may grow old in body, but never in mind.

These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.

Freedom is participation in power.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with deeper fangs than freedom never endangered

No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.