Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I cannot find a faithful message-bearer, he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.
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
Find
Letters
Lightening
Without
Carry
Weighty
Messages
Bearer
Friend
Scholar
Reading
Letter
Rather
Faithful
Cannot
Message
Able
Wrote
Atticus
More quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is necessary for a Senator to be thoroughly acquainted with the constitution and this is a knowledge of the most extensive nature a matter of science, of diligence, of reflection, without which no Senator can possibly be fit for his office.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Religion is the pious worship of God.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger for drink, thirst.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
