Marcus Tullius Cicero
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe first bond of society is marriage.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIn a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThere are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Marcus Tullius CiceroLove is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty
Marcus Tullius CiceroWe are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
Marcus Tullius CiceroWhen you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
Marcus Tullius CiceroBy doubting we come at truth.
Marcus Tullius CiceroHe has departed, withdrawn, gone away, broken out.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIf we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.
Marcus Tullius CiceroPhilosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom.
Marcus Tullius CiceroAbility without honor is useless.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europe.
Marcus Tullius CiceroNothing quite new is perfect.
Marcus Tullius CiceroJustice is the crowning glory of the virtues.
Marcus Tullius CiceroFriendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Marcus Tullius CiceroCan there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
Marcus Tullius CiceroTo be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?
Marcus Tullius CiceroNothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThese studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old; an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with
Marcus Tullius CiceroEndless money forms the sinews of war.
Marcus Tullius CiceroNatural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without naturalability.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThere were poets before Homer.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
