Marcus T. Cicero
112 quotations
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Hatred is inveterate anger.
Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace.
Honor is the reward of virtue.
To the sick, while there is life there is hope.
I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
A community is like the ones who govern it.
There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.
The foundation of justice is good faith.
Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
The good of the people is the greatest law.
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
A letter does not blush.
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
While there's life, there's hope.
What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.