Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Ancient Roman Military Personnel
Ancient Roman Politician
Ancient Roman Priest
Jurist
Lawyer
Orator
Philosopher
Poet
Political Theorist
Dallas
Texas
Marcus Tullius Cicero
M. Tullii Ciceronis
Marcus Tullius -- Translations into French Cicero
Would
Profusion
Covetousness
Abolish
Mother
Must
More quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Read at every wait read at all hours read within leisure read in times of labor read as one goes in read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
There were poets before Homer.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
You may never be less alone than when you are alone.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Religion is the pious worship of God.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Man must suffer to be wise.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
As I breathe, I hope.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
