Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marriage, Consensus

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing, Memory, Stands

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature, Character, Live

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Age, Old, Youth

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Rather, Guilty, Leave

The best interpreter of the law is custom.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Best, Law, Custom

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Eyes, Place, Body

The good of the people is the greatest law.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Good, Greatest, Law

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Greatest, Disgust, Separated

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Time, Long, Short

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Live, Give, Law

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature, Men, Study

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Live, Eat, Thou

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Meaning, Full, Force

To live is to think.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

To some extent I liken slavery to death.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Death, Slavery, Extent

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature, Mind, Reason

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Write, Themselves, Desire

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men, Whole, Universe

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Ugly, Beast, Ape

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Whatever, Might, Ought

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

Place, Second, Reach

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Biography

Nationality: Roman

Type: Statesman

Born: 106 BC

Died: 43 BC

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