Marcus Tullius Cicero
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.Collection: Education
The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.Collection: Inspirational
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.Collection: Inspirational
It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.Collection: Selfishness
I am never less alone than when alone.Collection: Loneliness
I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.Collection: Talking
Friends, though absent, are still present.Collection: Friendship
You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.Collection: Inspirational
Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.Collection: Art
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.Collection: Thank You
The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.Collection: Freedom
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.Collection: Agriculture
Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.Collection: People
He has no worse enemy than himself.Collection: Men
Probability is the very guide of life.Collection: Investing
Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.Collection: Philosophical
Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.Collection: Men
Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons lives from violence of any and every kind by all means within their power.Collection: Mean
Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.Collection: Long
While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.Collection: Roots
Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.Collection: Inspirational
In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.Collection: Preparation
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.Collection: Friendship
Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at homeCollection: Home
To live long it is necessary to live slowly.Collection: Long
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.Collection: Clever
For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.Collection: Age
I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.Collection: Men
History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.Collection: Teacher
There is a difference between justice and consideration in one's relations to one's fellow men. It is the function of justice not to do wrong to one's fellow men of considerateness, not to wound their feelings.Collection: Men
Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.Collection: Children
The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.Collection: Sweet
"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."Collection: Inspirational
In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hatefulCollection: Procrastination
Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.Collection: Success
In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.Collection: Doubt
A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.Collection: War
It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.Collection: Honorable
Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.Collection: Poetry
You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.Collection: Sky
Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.Collection: Fire
In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.Collection: Philosophical
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.Collection: Philosophical
To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.Collection: Law
Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)Collection: Philosopher
If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.Collection: Mother
That he who hath the loan of money has not repaid it, and he who has repaid has not the loan; but he who has acknowledged a kindness has it still, and he who has a feeling of it has requited it.Collection: Kindness
Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man.Collection: Real