Top 500 Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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2. “More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

3. “Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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4. “A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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5. “If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

6. “We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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7. “While there’s life, there’s hope.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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8. “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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10. “To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

11. “It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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12. “If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

13. “Sometimes I do what I want to. The rest of the time- I do what I have to.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

14. “Life without learning is death.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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15. “The Jews belong to a dark and repulsive force. One knows how numerous this clique is, how they stick together and what power they exercise through their unions. They are a nation of rascals and deceivers.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

16. “To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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17. “Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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18. “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

19. “Life is nothing without friendship.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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20. “The safety of the people shall be the highest law.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

21. “Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

22. “Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

23. “Dum spiro, spero.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

24. “In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods, than in giving health to men.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

25. “The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

26. “The more laws, the less justice.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

27. “What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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28. “Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

29. “Probability is the very guide of life.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

30. “To live long, live slowly.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

31. “What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

32. “The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

33. “Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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34. “The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

35. “History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

36. “It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

37. “Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

38. “Before beginning, plan carefully.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

39. “Those who do not know history will forever remain children.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

40. “The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

41. “The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another’s heart.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

42. “The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

43. “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

44. “Man is his own worst enemy.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

45. “The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

46. “In times of war, the law falls silent.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

47. “Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

48. “The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

49. “To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

50. “The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero