1,226 Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

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.

No man is so old as to think he can't live one more year

As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.

History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life

Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.

He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

The minds of men do in the weather share, dark or serene as it's foul or fair

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.