Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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

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When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.

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Nature has inclined us to love men.

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Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

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Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water.

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He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

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The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common.

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O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

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Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.

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Life is nothing without friendship.

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This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

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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.

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No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

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Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.

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Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.

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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

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The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.

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Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory of our empire, the dignity of our name, the customs of our ancestors.

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As you have sown so shall you reap.

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