Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Tall oaks grow from little acorns.Testing. This is the text of an item. Testing. Origin. Testing. Quoted. Testing. Source. The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

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Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

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Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.

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No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds.

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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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The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.

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I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

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Strain every nerve to gain your point.

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No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.

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Be a pattern to others and then all will go well.

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In the approach to virtue there are many steps.

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A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant.

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If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

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Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

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If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.

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Our thoughts are free.

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Leisure with dignity.

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Falsehoods border on truths.

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