Marcus Tullius Cicero Memories Quotations

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.

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

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life

When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.

Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

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.