Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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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Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.

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There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.

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Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

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Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

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Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.

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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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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 eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body. [Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]

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It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

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We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.

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Tomorrow will give us something to think about

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Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

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Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.

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All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

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Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

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What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.

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Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

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