1,226 Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.

I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.

He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.

Frugality includes all the other virtues.

A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.