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Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes | Quotes said by Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote #1

    A friend is, as it were, a second self.

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote #2

    A home without books is a body without soul.

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote #3

    A man of courage is also full of faith.

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote #4

    Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote #5

    Amicitiae nostrae memoriam spero sempiternam fore

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote #6

    An unjust peace is better than a just war.

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote #7

    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.

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote #8

    atque illi artifices corporis simulacra ignotis nota faciebant; quae uel si nulla, nihilo sint tamen obscuriores clari uiri.

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote #9

    Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote #10

    But if I am wrong in thinking the human soul immortal, I am glad to be wrong; nor will I allow the mistake which gives me so much pleasure to be wrested from me as long as I live.

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote #11

    Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote #12

    Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote #13

    Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote #14

    Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote #15

    Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote #16

    For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote #17

    Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote #18

    Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote #19

    Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote #20

    Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote #21

    Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote #22

    Hatred is inveterate anger.

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote #23

    Hatred is settled anger.

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote #24

    He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote #25

    Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote #26

    I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote #27

    I cannot find a faithful message-bearer, he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote #28

    I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote #29

    I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote #30

    If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

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