Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.Collection: Art
Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.Collection: Life
This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.Collection: Inspirational
We all are imbued with the love of praise.Collection: Praise
Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.Collection: Events
It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.Collection: Men
The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.Collection: God
He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.Collection: Kindness
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.Collection: Character
He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.Collection: Men
The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.Collection: Envy
Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.Collection: God
Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.Collection: Prudence
All soils are not fertile.Collection: Soil
I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.Collection: Garden
The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.Collection: Atheist
Hunger is the best sauce.Collection: Food
It is pleasant to recall past troubles.Collection: Past
The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.Collection: Justice
There were poets before Homer.Collection: Poetry
Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue.Collection: Economy
The forehead is the gate of the mind.Collection: Mind
Inhumanity is harmful in every age. - Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta estCollection: Age
If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.Collection: Law
The illustrious and noble ought to place before them certain rules and regulations, not less for their hours of leisure and relaxation than for those of business.Collection: Relaxation
A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.Collection: Lying
That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!Collection: Favour
I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.Collection: Wisdom
To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.Collection: Men
I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.Collection: Culture
The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.Collection: Sleep
It is a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.Collection: Strong
Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).Collection: War
What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?Collection: Labor
Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.Collection: Punishment
There is no moment without some duty.Collection: Moments
I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.Collection: Sea
It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.Collection: Friendship
Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.Collection: Good Life
Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.Collection: Philosophical
Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.Collection: Friendship
Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.Collection: Real