Top 500 Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

302. “The whole glory of virtue resides in activity.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

303. “Everyone has his besetting sin.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

304. “The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

305. “I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

306. “Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

307. “An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

308. “Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

309. “There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

310. “The reward of friendship is friendship itself.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

311. “Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

312. “Do nothing twice over.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

313. “A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

314. “Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

315. “No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

316. “No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

317. “The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

318. “There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

319. “For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

320. “This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn’t show its age.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

321. “Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

322. “No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

323. “Books are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad; companions by night, in traveling, in the country.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

324. “For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

325. “What is more agreeable than one’s home?”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

326. “There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

327. “There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

328. “If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

329. “Peace is liberty in tranquillity.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

330. “I wonder that a soothsayer doesn’t laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

331. “Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

332. “Let us not go over the old ground but rather prepare for what is to come.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

333. “A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

334. “It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

335. “I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

336. “The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

337. “In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

338. “Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

339. “Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

340. “When they remain silent, they cry out.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

341. “Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

342. “Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

343. “The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

344. “Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother. Thank you for my laughter. Thank you for my friend.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

345. “The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

346. “The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

347. “What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

348. “There is no place more delightful than one’s own fireside. Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

349. “Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

350. “Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero