Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead. [Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. [Lat., Mature fieri senem,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries. [Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first;… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image