1,226 Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The science of love is the philosophy of the heart.

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret – that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

Of this last kind of comparisons is that quoted from the elder Cato, who, when asked what was the most profitable thing to be done on an estate, replied, “To feed cattle well.” “What second best?” “To feed cattle moderately well.” “What third best?” “To feed cattle, though but poorly.” “What fourth best?” “To plough the land.” And when he who had made these inquiries asked, “What is to be said of making profit by usury?” Cato replied, “What is to be said of making profit by murder?

Patria est communis omnium parens. Our country is the common parent of all.

Please go on, make your threats. I don’t like to submit to mere implication.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues. As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man’s life.

I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.