Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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151. “Time is the herald of truth.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

166. “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

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

168. “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

169. “O, tempora! O, mores!”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

171. “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

172. “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

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

174. “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

175. “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

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

178. “The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

179. “Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

180. “Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

182. “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

183. “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

184. “Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

185. “As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

186. “Of this last kind of comparisons is that quoted from the elder Cato, who, when asked what was the most profitable thing to be done on an estate, replied, “To feed cattle well.” “What second best?” “To feed cattle moderately well.” “What third best?” “To feed cattle, though but poorly.” “What fourth best?” “To plough the land.” And when he who had made these inquiries asked, “What is to be said of making profit by usury?” Cato replied, “What is to be said of making profit by murder?”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

189. “Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

190. “An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

191. “The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

192. “Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

194. “By doubting we come at truth.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

197. “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

198. “Man must suffer to be wise.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero