Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

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An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy).

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Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

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Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

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Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.

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

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Though laughter is allowable, a horse-laugh is abominable.

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For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

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Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

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Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.

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As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.

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Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

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The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

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Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.

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It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

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Tall oaks grow from little acorns.Testing. This is the text of an item. Testing. Origin. Testing. Quoted. Testing. Source. The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

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For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

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

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Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

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