1,226 Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

Judge not by the number, but by the weight.

I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europe.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second.

I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.

The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.