Quotes from Cicero
Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.
- Cicero
A man has no enemy worse than himself.
- Cicero
Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]
- Cicero
That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.
- Cicero
When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.
- Cicero
Frugality includes all the other virtues.
- Cicero
Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.
- Cicero
If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.
- Cicero
But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?
- Cicero
It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.
- Cicero
Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?
- Cicero
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
- Cicero