Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The human mind ever longs for occupation.

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Though laughter is allowable, a horse-laugh is abominable.

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What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

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To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]

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Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.

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For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

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For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.

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Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

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In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

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The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong

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Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.

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For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.

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Reason should direct, and appetite obey.

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To live long it is necessary to live slowly.

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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

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Dogs wait for us faithfully.

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

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Let the soldier yield to the civilian.

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