Quotes by Cicero

Thanks to that regular and temperate course of life I have ever lived, I am still capable of taking an active part in these public scenes of business. In fine, he who fills up every hour of his life in such kind of labors as those I have mentioned, will insensibly slide into old age without perceiving its arrival; and his powers, instead of being suddenly and prematurely extinguished, will gradually decline by the gentle and natural effect of accumulated years.

— Cicero

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

— Cicero