Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap.

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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

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Time is the herald of truth.

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For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

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The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.

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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

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The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

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Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit

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Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.

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For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.

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What is dignity without honesty?

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It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.

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The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

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He is rich who wishes no more than he has.

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Old age by nature is rather talkative.

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Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.

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Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

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A true friend is a sort of second self.

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As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

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Every man's friend is no man's friend.

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