Top 1054 Quotes & Sayings by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero.
Last updated on September 14, 2024.
Laws are silent in time of war.
While there's life, there's hope.
The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
The good of the people is the greatest law.
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
More law, less justice.
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
A home without books is a body without soul.
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
A man of courage is also full of faith.
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
No sane man will dance.
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
The sinews of war are infinite money.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
To live is to think.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
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