Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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201. “Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

205. “Extreme justice is extreme injustice.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

206. “Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

208. “I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

209. “If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

210. “There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

211. “Hunger is the best sauce.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

212. “We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

213. “For every man’s nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very often his countenance, are deceitful, and his speech is most commonly a lie.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

214. “This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

215. “Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

216. “If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

217. “Calamus fortior gladio.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

218. “Leisure with dignity.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

220. “I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

221. “It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

222. “Patria est communis omnium parens. Our country is the common parent of all.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

223. “Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

224. “A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

225. “The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

226. “Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

227. “Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

228. “Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

231. “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

232. “If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

233. “Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

235. “The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

236. “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

237. “Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

238. “A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

239. “The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

240. “Please go on, make your threats. I don’t like to submit to mere implication.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

241. “That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

242. “The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

243. “Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

244. “The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

245. “Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

246. “A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

247. “In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

248. “There is no moment without some duty.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

249. “Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

250. “A man has no enemy worse than himself.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero