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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Thrift is of great revenue.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
To live is to think.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
To some extent I liken slavery to death.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
True nobility is exempt from fear.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
