Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Ability without honor is useless.

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Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)

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Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]

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Time is the herald of truth.

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It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.

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A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

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All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

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

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To some extent I liken slavery to death.

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Economy is a great revenue. [Lat., Magnum vectigal est parsimonia.]

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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

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The human mind ever longs for occupation.

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If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

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Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.

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The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

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I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

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Our thoughts are free.

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Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

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Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.

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This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

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