Top 500 Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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

152. “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

153. “I am a Roman citizen.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

156. “Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

158. “You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

163. “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

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

168. “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

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

172. “Man must suffer to be wise.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

177. “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

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

179. “Time is the herald of truth.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

184. “Calamus fortior gladio.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

186. “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

187. “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

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

192. “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

193. “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

194. “Religion is the pious worship of God.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

196. “A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

200. “In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero