1,226 Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

No one dances sober, unless he is insane.

Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.

Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

Like readily consorts with like.