Top 500 Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

452. “Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

453. “In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

454. “A community is like the ones who govern it.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

455. “Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

456. “A s laws multiply, injustice increases.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

457. “The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

458. “I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

459. “Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

460. “Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

461. “Should this my firm persuasion of the soul’s immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

462. “What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

463. “The popular breeze – Aura popularis.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

464. “Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

465. “Nothing quite new is perfect.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

466. “A bachelor’s bed is the most pleasant.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

467. “Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

468. “Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

469. “Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

470. “It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

471. “There were poets before Homer.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

472. “No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

473. “It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

474. “Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

475. “While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

476. “It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

477. “The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

478. “Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

479. “We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

480. “Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

481. “It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

482. “As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

483. “Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

484. “Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquility and peace.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

485. “In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

486. “I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

487. “Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you, as they have done already.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

488. “But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

489. “I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

490. “An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

491. “Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

492. “As I breathe, I hope.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

493. “The avarice of the old: it’s absurd to increase one’s luggage as one nears the journey’s end.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

494. “The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one’s home port after a long voyage.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

495. “Let each man have according to his deserts.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

496. “Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

497. “Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

498. “The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

499. “Kindness is produced by kindness.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

500. “It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero