Quotes from Marcus Tullius Cicero

Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than # agriculture

He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.

By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.

Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]

Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.

Man must suffer to be wise.

Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]

An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy).

We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.

The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.

Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.

It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

Men of different tastes have different pursuits.

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.