Quotes by Cicero

Honor is the reward of virtue.

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

Socrates indeed when he was asked of what country he called himself said Of the world for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.

Nothing common can seem worthy of you.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body but can never be so in mind.

“My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything bad which Nature makes inevitable.”