1,226 Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?

No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]

Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

The First Bond of Society is Marriage.

Let reason govern desire.

No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself. [Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]

Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones.

The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?