Marcus Tullius Cicero quotes and words of wisdom

"No Sane man will dance."
Found in the topic Dance.

"I criticize by creation - not by finding fault."
Found in the topic Creation.

"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn."
Found in the topic Teach.

"No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good."
Found in the topic Brave.

"I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war."
Found in the topic Peace.

"No one can give you better advice than yourself."
Found in the topic Advice.

"The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory."
Found in the topic Ambition.

"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."
Found in the topic Youth.

"There is no place more delightful than one"s own fireplace."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"To 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?"
Found in the topic Children.

"He is never less at leisure than when at leisure, nor less alone than when he is alone. Never less idle than when wholly idle, nor less alone than when wholly alone. ? Numquam se minus otiosum esse, quam quum otiosus, nec minus solum, quam quum solus esset."
Found in the topic Lonely.

"When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank."
Found in the topic Honor.

"Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary."
Found in the topic Life.

"A happy life consists in tranquility of mind."
Found in the topic Happiness.

"There are more men ennobled by study than by nature."
Found in the topic Reverence.

"No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year."
Found in the topic Age.

"There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act."
Found in the topic Wickedness.

"Each man"s mind is the man himself!"
Found in the topic Mind.

"There is no fortress so strong that money cannot take it."
Found in the topic Wealth.

"There is nothing which God cannot do."
Found in the topic Education.

Interesting Quotes

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.Simon Cameron - US financier & politician (1799 - 1889)

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.George S. Patton - US general (1885 - 1945)