1,226 Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.

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

If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.

He used to raise a storm in a teapot.

Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

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

I swear I would rather be wrong with Plato than see the truth with men like these.

Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.