Top 500 Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

252. “Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

256. “Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

261. “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

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

272. “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

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

276. “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

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

278. “We make allowance for necessity.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

285. “Nature abhors annihilation.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

288. “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

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

290. “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

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

294. “Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

296. “It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

297. “Hatred is settled anger.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

298. “Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

299. “The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

300. “One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero