Top 500 Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “They condemn what they do not understand.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

102. “Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. – Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

103. “It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

105. “Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

106. “Man’s best support is a very dear friend.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

107. “We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

108. “It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

109. “It is a true saying that ‘one falsehood easily leads to another.’”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

110. “The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

111. “Let your desires be ruled by reason.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

112. “For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

113. “The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

114. “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

115. “Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

116. “Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

117. “No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

118. “I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

119. “The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

120. “An unjust peace is better than a just war.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

121. “Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

122. “There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

123. “The best interpreter of the law is custom.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

124. “Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

125. “The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

126. “History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

127. “Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

128. “A good orator is pointed and impassioned.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

130. “Aristoteles quidem ait: ‘Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.’ Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

131. “Extreme justice is extreme injustice.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

132. “Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

133. “Virtue is its own reward.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

134. “I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

136. “Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

137. “The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

138. “I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

139. “When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

140. “The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

141. “The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

142. “We are born poets. we become orators.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

143. “Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

144. “Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

145. “I am a Roman citizen.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

146. “O, tempora! O, mores!”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

147. “If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

148. “The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

149. “What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

150. “The wise man never loses his temper.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero