Quotes from Cicero
A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
- Cicero
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.
- Cicero
Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.
- Cicero
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
- Cicero
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
- Cicero
Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
- Cicero
When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.
- Cicero
We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.
- Cicero
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.
- Cicero
Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.
- Cicero
For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot die wretchedly.
- Cicero
The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.
- Cicero