Top 500 Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Ability without honor is useless.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

253. “Leisure with dignity.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

254. “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

255. “A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

256. “Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

257. “The great theatre for virtue is conscience.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

260. “Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

265. “Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

266. “Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

271. “There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

274. “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

275. “The forehead is the gate of the mind.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

278. “I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

280. “A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

282. “Nature herself makes the wise man rich.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

283. “Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

286. “We make allowance for necessity.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

288. “It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

289. “Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

290. “Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

292. “Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

293. “Nature abhors annihilation.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

294. “There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

295. “Apollo, sacred guard of earth’s true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word...”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

296. “Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

297. “There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

298. “A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

299. “A wise man does nothing by constraint.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

300. “No obligation to do the impossible is binding.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero