Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized.

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The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.

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

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That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

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

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For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

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All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

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There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.

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Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.

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Hmm... That's like telling you about the cold of space, or terror of midnight. Sithis is all those things. He is... the Void.

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Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.

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It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.

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Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]

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They condemn what they do not understand.

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Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.

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

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Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.

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That man is guilty of impertinence who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject of his discourse, or pays no regard to the company he is in.

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Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

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It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.

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