Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Tall oaks grow from little acorns.Testing. This is the text of an item. Testing. Origin. Testing. Quoted. Testing. Source. The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

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Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

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Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.

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We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

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Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.

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There is no moment without some duty.

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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

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Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

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Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

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He is rich who wishes no more than he has.

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Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion.

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It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

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We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one.

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Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

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The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

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A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

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Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

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Nothing quite new is perfect.

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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

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