1,226 Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.

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.

Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.

Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.