Marcus T. Cicero
112 quotations
Ability without honor is useless.
The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.
There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.
No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
Empire and liberty.
I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Life is nothing without friendship.
Friends are proved by adversity.
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.