Marcus Tullius Cicero
There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.Collection: Poet
The remembrance of past misery is sweet.Collection: Sweet
Let the soldier yield to the civilian.Collection: Yield
Thrift is a great revenue.Collection: Revenue
For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.Collection: Wish
The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.Collection: Time
No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.Collection: Stars
It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.Collection: House
There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.Collection: Art
Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.Collection: Mind
In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.Collection: Art
Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.Collection: Truth
What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!Collection: Vanity
Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured; but when we obtain the victory, we must preserve those enemies who behaved without cruelty or inhumanity during the war.Collection: War
Man's best support is a very dear friend.Collection: Friendship
The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.Collection: Hope
Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.Collection: Children
No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.Collection: Life
The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.Collection: Children
The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.Collection: Swans
Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.Collection: Warrior
In the approach to virtue there are many steps.Collection: Steps
Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.Collection: Country
Nothing quite new is perfect.Collection: Perfect
I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.Collection: Thinking
As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap.Collection: Results
Can you also, Lucullus, affirm that there is any power united with wisdom and prudence which has made, or, to use your own expression, manufactured man? What sort of a manufacture is that? Where is it exercised? when? why? how?Collection: Men
Our liberality should not exceed our ability.Collection: Should
Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.Collection: Past
Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.Collection: Incentives
It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.Collection: Window To The Soul
The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.Collection: Success
To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a childCollection: Children
For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.Collection: Life
There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.Collection: Race
...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life.Collection: Karma
All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.Collection: Lying
If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.Collection: Work
For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.Collection: Life Is Short
The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.Collection: Football
Strict law is often great injustice.Collection: Law
Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].Collection: Mother
Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.Collection: War
Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.Collection: Action
Never injure a friend, even in jest.Collection: Friendship