Cicero Quotes

Wat kan in de bezigheden der mensen van belang lijken voor een man die de eeuwigheid voor ogen houdt en zich bewust is van de uitgestrektheid van het universum?

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Hatred is settled anger.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Dogs wait for us faithfully.

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

There are no snares more dangerous than those which lurk under the guise of duty or the name of relationship.

Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

No one can speak well unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

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

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

For as I like a man in whom there is something of the old, so I like a man in whom there is something of the young; and he who follows this maxim, in body will possibly be an old man but he will never be an old man in mind.

What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

Mine is the disaster, if disaster there be; and to be severely distressed at one's own misfortunes does not show that you love your friend, but that you love yourself.

What he sees often, he does not wonder at, even if he does not know why it is. If something happens which he has not seen before, he thinks it a prodigy.

It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.

Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.