1,226 Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!

Honor is the reward of virtue.

Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]

Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.

There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?