Cicero Quotes

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

We are all servants of the laws in order to be free

Quid? Quod eadem mente res dissimillimas comprehendimus, ut colorem saporem, calorem, odorem, sonum? Quae numquam quinque nuntiis animus cognosceret, nisi ad eum omnia referrentur et is omnium iudex solus esset.

A man of faith is also full of courage

Just as apples when unripe are torn from trees, but when ripe and mellow drop down, so it is violence that takes life from young men, ripeness from old. This ripeness is so delightful to me that, as I approach nearer to death, I seem, as it were, to be sighting land, and to be coming to port at last after a long voyage.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Arms are of little value in the field unless there is wise counsel at home.

Non nobis solum nati sumus.

If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

L'amicizia supera in questo la parentela: nella parentela l'affetto si può eliminare, nell'amicizia no; infatti, tolto l'affetto viene meno l'amicizia stessa, la parentela rimane.

Occupavi te, inquit, fortuna, atque cepi omnesque aditus tuos interclusi, ut ad me aspirare non posses.
§ Tusculan Disputations - Book V.

The process, indeed, of nature is this: that just in the same manner as our birth was the beginning of things with us, so death will be the end; and as we were noways concerned with anything before we were born, so neither shall we be after we are dead.

Uma casa sem livros é como um corpo sem alma

Kindness is stronger than fear.

The egoist loves himself without rivals.