Cicero Quotes


The beginnings of all things are small. Cicero Beginning 179
To live long it is necessary to live slowly. Cicero Living 161
Frugality includes all the other virtues. Cicero Money 158
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Cicero Ability 110
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. Cicero Past 104
I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier. Cicero Happiness 99
A friend is, as it were, a second self. Cicero Friendship 97
No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion. Cicero Opinions 96
Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others. Cicero Improvement 95
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. Cicero Conscience 91
It is a truth but too well known, that rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age. Cicero Prudence 88
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself. Cicero Confidence 87
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. Cicero Aging 86
To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass. Cicero Impossible 80
He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately. Cicero Talk 79
It is pleasant to recall past troubles. Cicero Trouble 79
The administration of government, like a guardianship, ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust. Cicero Government 77
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. Cicero Fools 77
A man of courage is also full of faith. Cicero Faith 76
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory. Cicero Character 74
Virtue is its own reward. Cicero Virtue 72
It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish. Cicero Wealth 71
Let every man practice the art that he knows best. Cicero Work 70
Let a man practice the profession which he best knows. Cicero Career 70
To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul. Cicero Books 69
Diligence, as it avails in all things, is also of the utmost moment in pleading causes. Diligence is to be particularly cultivated by us; it is to be constantly exerted, it is capable of effecting almost everything. Cicero Perseverance 69
We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardor of its passion, but by its strength and constancy. Cicero Love 69
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. Cicero Gratitude 68
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. Cicero Reason 67
Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk. Cicero Power 67
The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious. Cicero Virtue 65
No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear. Cicero Fear 63
It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post. Cicero Adversity 62
If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third. Cicero Goals 58
Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination. Cicero Virtue 57
In prosperity let us particularly avoid pride, disdain and arrogance. Cicero Prosperity 57
My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner. Cicero Business 54
Genius is fostered by industry. Cicero Genius 53
The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite. Cicero Mind 52
We all are imbued with the love of praise. Cicero Praise 49
A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy. Cicero Happiness 48
It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense. Cicero Pleasure 43
Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another. Cicero Money 41
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation. Cicero 40
There is not a moment without some duty. Cicero Duty 40
It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable. Cicero Man 40
We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink. Cicero Mind 39
The aim of justice is to give everyone his due. Cicero Justice 39
He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it. Cicero Kindness 39
I criticize by creation, not by finding fault. Cicero Criticism 38

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