1,226 Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The beginnings of all things are small.

There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

Diligence which, as it avails in all things, is also of the utmost moment in pleading causes. Diligence is to be particularly cultivated by us; it is to be constantly exerted; it is capable of effecting almost everything.

Law stands mute in the midst of arms.

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. [Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.]

Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense.

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