Quotes from Marcus Tullius Cicero

When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.

Frugality includes all the other virtues.

Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.

If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?

It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.

Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.

Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

The works of nature must all be accounted good.

But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.

Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]

Nature has inclined us to love men.

Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.