1,226 Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Always the same thing.

There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.

If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries. [Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.]

The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.

That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]

We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.

Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

Man must suffer to be wise.

The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.