1,226 Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.

Never less idle than when wholly idle, nor less alone than when wholly alone.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom.

It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

I would rather err with Plato than think rightly with these (Pythagoreans)