Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.

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I hate all children of precocious talent.

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Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

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If some lose their whole fortunes, they will drag many more down with them . . . believe me that the whole system of credit and finance which is carried on here at Rome in the Forum, is inextricably bound up with the revenues of the Asiatic province. If Those revenues are destroyed, our whole system of credit will come down with a crash.

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If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

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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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How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!

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Man must suffer to be wise.

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Nothing quite new is perfect.

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Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

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In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.

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The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

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The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

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The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

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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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There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.]

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The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.

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Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

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