Cicero Quotes

When you are aspiring to the highest place it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

A friend is as it were a second self.

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

Hatred is settled anger.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue not a companion in vice.

It is fortune not wisdom that rules man's life.

Socrates indeed when he was asked of what country he called himself said "Of the world" for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.

The precept "Know yourself " was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind but likewise that we might understand our own worth.

To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.

O temporal O mores! O what times! what morals!

I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.