Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The wise man never loses his temper.

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The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.

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

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The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]

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All things are full of God.

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In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.

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The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?

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There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.

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Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

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Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

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The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

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A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

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For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

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Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.

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What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

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No sane man will dance.

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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

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The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.

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No sober person dances.

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