Top 500 Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

152. “Man was born for two things – thinking and acting.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

153. “If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

154. “We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

155. “Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man’s life.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

156. “When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

157. “Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

158. “We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

159. “In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

160. “Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

161. “Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

162. “There is no place more delightful than home.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

163. “The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

164. “There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

165. “The aim of justice is to give everyone his due.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

166. “In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

167. “I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

168. “By doubting we come at truth.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

169. “We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

170. “What is permissible is not always honorable.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

171. “Man must suffer to be wise.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

172. “To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

173. “No one dances sober, unless he is insane.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

174. “All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

175. “The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

176. “Time is the herald of truth.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

177. “Friends, though absent, are still present.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

178. “The First Bond of Society is Marriage.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

179. “Loquor enim de docto homine et erudito, cui vivere est cogitare.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

180. “The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

181. “Calamus fortior gladio.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

182. “Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

183. “A friend is, as it were, a second self.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

184. “Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

185. “To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

186. “For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

187. “The precept, “Know yourself,” was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind; but likewise that we might understand our own worth.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

188. “If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

189. “I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

190. “Strain every nerve to gain your point.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

191. “The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

192. “Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

193. “Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

194. “In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

195. “God’s law is ‘right reason.’ When perfectly understood it is called ‘wisdom.’ When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called ’justice.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

196. “In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

197. “There are no true friends in politics.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

198. “Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them would prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

199. “To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

200. “If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero