Quotes
Quotes - Cicero
In nothing do men approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.
In nothing do men approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.
To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardour of its passion, but by its strength and constancy.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
Whatever you do, do with all your might.
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.
In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
