Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.

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It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.

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Let reason govern desire.

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Let each man have according to his deserts.

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The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

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Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

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Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.

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As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.

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He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.

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I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

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In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.

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It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

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Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.

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Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed.

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A community is like the ones who govern it.

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The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.

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Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.

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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

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

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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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