Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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A man of courage is also full of faith.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Faith, Courage, Full

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Gardening, Everything, Library

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Experience, Wise, Stupid

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Death, Life, Living

While there's life, there's hope.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life, Hope, While

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

Friendship, Sympathy, Friendly

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Wisdom, Yourself, Give

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The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Best, Calm, Pursuit

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Mistakes, Idiot, Error

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life, Confidence, Self

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Fool, Forget, Others

A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship, Friend, Self

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Religion, God, Food

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Truth, Mind, Nothing

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Gratitude, Greatest, Others

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

Life, Friendship, True

The more laws, the less justice.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Legal, Justice, Less

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Character, Fire, Down

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature, Through, Law

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing, Human, Whole

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Power, Rule, Majority

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Food, Mind, Body

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

Great, Angry, Nothing

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Biography

Nationality: Roman

Type: Statesman

Born: 106 BC

Died: 43 BC

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