Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.
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
Thing
Life
Desirable
Modest
Leisure
Dignity
Health
Means
Mean
More quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Honor is the reward of virtue.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The sinews of war are infinite money.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)
Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Old age by nature is rather talkative.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Diligence which, as it avails in all things, is also of the utmost moment in pleading causes. Diligence is to be particularly cultivated by us it is to be constantly exerted it is capable of effecting almost everything.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
