Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.

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

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

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No sane man will dance.

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Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.

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In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.

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He is rich who wishes no more than he has.

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What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?

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The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.

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The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

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I am a Roman citizen.

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Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

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True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.

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It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.

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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

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All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

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That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.

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Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit

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Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

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No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

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