1,226 Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

There were poets before Homer.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

Nothing quite new is perfect.

Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,' is a discreditable one, and should not be admitted for a moment. We should ask from friends and do for friends only what is good.

Like associates with like.

A man has no worse enemy than himself.

Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.

Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.

No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.