1,226 Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Those who do not know history will forever remain children

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men'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.

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods, than in giving health to men.

The contract they sent over called for a 76 percent price increase.

There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.

Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.

There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest.