1,226 Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than #‎ agriculture

The law in Athens is true in Rome

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

A community is like the ones who govern it.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed.

Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.