1,226 Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.

Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.

Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

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

If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.