Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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351. “When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

352. “There is no castle so strong that it cannot be overthrown by money.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

353. “Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

354. “True nobility is exempt from fear.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

355. “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

356. “Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, ‘for friendship’s sake,’ is a discreditable one, and should not be admitted for a moment. We should ask from friends and do for friends only what is good.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

358. “A letter does not blush.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

359. “He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

360. “The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

361. “Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

362. “To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

363. “Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

365. “Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

366. “Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

367. “Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

368. “Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

369. “The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

370. “Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

371. “The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

372. “Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

373. “No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

374. “If wisdom be attainable, let us not only win but enjoy it.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

375. “The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

376. “Inhumanity is harmful in every age. – Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

377. “Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

379. “Law stands mute in the midst of arms.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

380. “What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

381. “In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

382. “Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

383. “Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

384. “Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

385. “I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

386. “The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

388. “Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

389. “No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

391. “He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

392. “Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

393. “Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

394. “There are no true friends in politics.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

395. “We make allowance for necessity.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

396. “A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

397. “Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

398. “They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

399. “Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

400. “We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero