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Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
"As you have sown, so shall you reap."
"Nothing is so absurd that it has not been said by one philosopher or another."
"The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter."
"The evil was not in bread and circuses, per se, but in the willingness of the people to sell their rights as free men for full bellies and the excitement of the games which would serve as the instrument of their decay."
"The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil."
"The safety of the people shall be the highest law."
"The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct."
"A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation."
"A man of courage is also full of faith."
"Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom."
"The well-being of the people is the highest law"
"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation"
"The good of the people is the chief law"
"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil"
"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book"
"It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment"
"While there's life, there's hope"
"Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error"
"The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk"
"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn"
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