1,226 Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

If I err in my belief that the souls of men are immortal, I err gladly, and do not wish to lose so delightful an error

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.

Religion is the pious worship of God.

For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.

The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

Laws are inoperative in war