Top 500 Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

155. “Man must suffer to be wise.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

161. “Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

164. “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

165. “I am a Roman citizen.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

166. “The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

167. “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

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

169. “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

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

171. “As I breathe, I hope.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

172. “There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

174. “For what I lack in experience I make up for in diligence.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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176. “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

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

179. “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

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

185. “Peace is liberty in tranquillity.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

188. “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

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

191. “The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

192. “Calamus fortior gladio.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

193. “Hunger is the best sauce.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

194. “It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

196. “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

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero