1,226 Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.

The remembrance of past misery is sweet.

Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.

The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap.

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

Hunger is the best sauce.

In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.