1,226 Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let arms yield to the toga, the laurel crown to praise.

The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

Let arms give place to civic robes, laurels to paeans.

It is pleasant to recall past troubles.

Old age has been charged with being insensible to pleasure and to enjoyments arising from the gratification of the senses, a most blessed and heavenly effect, truly, if it eases us of what in youth was the sorest plague of life

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it