Top 500 Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “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

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

303. “Hatred is settled anger.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

304. “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

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

307. “Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

309. “Everyone has his besetting sin.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

313. “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

314. “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

315. “For as I like a man in whom there is something of the old, so I like a man in whom there is something of the young; and he who follows this maxim, in body will possibly be an old man but he will never be an old man in mind.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

318. “Do nothing twice over.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

322. “Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

327. “We don’t practise generosity in order to secure gratitude, nor do we invest our gifts in the hope of a favourable return. Rather, it is nature that inclines us towards generosity. Just so, we don’t seek friendship with an expectation of gain, but regard the feeling of love as its own reward.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

328. “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

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

330. “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

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

332. “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

333. “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

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

336. “Peace is liberty in tranquillity.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

337. “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

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

343. “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

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

347. “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

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

350. “They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with blond hair. I would not be in the least bit surprised if these people would not some day become deadly to the human race.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero