Cicero Quotes

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

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

It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Rashness is truly the fruit of youth, but wisdom of old age.

Dogs wait for us faithfully.