Top 500 Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

53. “The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

54. “Life is short, but art lives forever.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

55. “I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

56. “Philosophy is the true mother of science.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

57. “The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

58. “There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

59. “Freedom is participation in power.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

60. “The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

61. “A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues. As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

62. “Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

63. “Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

64. “There is nothing god cannot do.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

65. “If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

66. “I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

67. “The science of love is the philosophy of the heart.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

68. “The real friend is another self.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

69. “Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

70. “Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

71. “Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

72. “The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

73. “The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

74. “The beginnings of all things are small.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

75. “Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

76. “I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

77. “Our thoughts are free.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

78. “After victory, you have more enemies.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

79. “Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

80. “History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

81. “Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

82. “The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

83. “Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

84. “The sinews of war are infinite money.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

85. “Taxes are the sinews of the state.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

86. “It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man’s life.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

87. “The foundation of justice is good faith.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

88. “The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

89. “What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

90. “Never injure a friend, even in jest.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

91. “Laws are silent in time of war.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

92. “The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret – that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

93. “Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

94. “No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

95. “Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

96. “We are not born for ourselves alone.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

97. “He who suffers, remembers.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

98. “To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

99. “Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

100. “It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero