Marcus Tullius Cicero
Thrift is of great revenue.Collection: Philosophical
Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.Collection: Age
If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.Collection: Loyalty
Though laughter is allowable, a horse-laugh is abominable.Collection: Horse
To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.Collection: Friendship
Law stands mute in the midst of arms.Collection: Law
It is a great thing to know your vices.Collection: Vices
Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.Collection: Science
The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.Collection: Sight
What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.Collection: Beauty
I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature.Collection: Strength
No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.Collection: Perfect
The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.Collection: Long
Let every man practice the art that he knows best.Collection: Art
The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.Collection: Suicide
Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.Collection: Friendship
This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.Collection: Book
Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.Collection: Taken
Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.Collection: Philosopher
Saving the virtues includes all other advantagesCollection: Saving
What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?Collection: Journey
There is no thing which God cannot accomplish.Collection: Accomplish
All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.Collection: Art
A letter does not blush.Collection: Doe
It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.Collection: Philosophical
No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.Collection: Poet
If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.Collection: Men
Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.Collection: Book
A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.Collection: Water
So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.Collection: Book
For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life.Collection: Believe
Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion.Collection: Reading
Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.Collection: Wish
We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.Collection: Wisdom
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.Collection: Memories
Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.Collection: Love
Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.Collection: Character
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.Collection: Grieving
All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.Collection: Lying
The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.Collection: Leadership
Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.Collection: Latin
Time is the herald of truth.Collection: Time
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.Collection: Philosophical
It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.Collection: Kindness
Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.Collection: Ignorance
Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.Collection: Age
It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.Collection: Real