Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.

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Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

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If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

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Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.

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Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest.

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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

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Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

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Hmm... That's like telling you about the cold of space, or terror of midnight. Sithis is all those things. He is... the Void.

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Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

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Friends are proved by adversity.

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The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

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Let the punishment match the offense.

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It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.

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He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

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To-morrow will give some food for thought.

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In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

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Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.

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What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.

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