Marcus T. Cicero

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

— Marcus T. Cicero

Ability without honor is useless.

— Marcus T. Cicero

I add this, that rational ability without education has more often raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability

— Marcus T. Cicero

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

— Marcus T. Cicero

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

— Marcus T. Cicero

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 T. Cicero

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 T. Cicero

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

— Marcus T. Cicero

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

— Marcus T. Cicero

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

— Marcus T. Cicero

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

— Marcus T. Cicero

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

— Marcus T. Cicero

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

— Marcus T. Cicero

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

— Marcus T. Cicero

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

— Marcus T. Cicero

Like associates with like.

— Marcus T. Cicero

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

— Marcus T. Cicero

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

— Marcus T. Cicero

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

— Marcus T. Cicero

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 T. Cicero

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

— Marcus T. Cicero

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

— Marcus T. Cicero

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

— Marcus T. Cicero

The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.

— Marcus T. Cicero

Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

— Marcus T. Cicero

No well-informed person ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind.

— Marcus T. Cicero

No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

— Marcus T. Cicero

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

— Marcus T. Cicero

A man of courage is also full of faith.

— Marcus T. Cicero

Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.

— Marcus T. Cicero

They condemn what they do not understand.

— Marcus T. Cicero

He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

— Marcus T. Cicero

It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

— Marcus T. Cicero

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

— Marcus T. Cicero

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

— Marcus T. Cicero

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

— Marcus T. Cicero

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

— Marcus T. Cicero

Empire and liberty.

— Marcus T. Cicero

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

— Marcus T. Cicero

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

— Marcus T. Cicero

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

— Marcus T. Cicero

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

— Marcus T. Cicero

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

— Marcus T. Cicero

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

— Marcus T. Cicero

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

— Marcus T. Cicero

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

— Marcus T. Cicero

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

— Marcus T. Cicero

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

— Marcus T. Cicero

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 T. Cicero

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

— Marcus T. Cicero

Life is nothing without friendship.

— Marcus T. Cicero

Friends are proved by adversity.

— Marcus T. Cicero

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

— Marcus T. Cicero

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

— Marcus T. Cicero

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

— Marcus T. Cicero

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

— Marcus T. Cicero

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

— Marcus T. Cicero

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

— Marcus T. Cicero

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

— Marcus T. Cicero

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

— Marcus T. Cicero

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

— Marcus T. Cicero

Hatred is inveterate anger.

— Marcus T. Cicero

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

— Marcus T. Cicero

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

— Marcus T. Cicero

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

— Marcus T. Cicero

There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace.

— Marcus T. Cicero

Honor is the reward of virtue.

— Marcus T. Cicero

Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

— Marcus T. Cicero

To the sick, while there is life there is hope.

— Marcus T. Cicero

I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.

— Marcus T. Cicero

A community is like the ones who govern it.

— Marcus T. Cicero

There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

— Marcus T. Cicero

The foundation of justice is good faith.

— Marcus T. Cicero

Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.

— Marcus T. Cicero

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

— Marcus T. Cicero

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

— Marcus T. Cicero

The good of the people is the greatest law.

— Marcus T. Cicero

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

— Marcus T. Cicero

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

— Marcus T. Cicero

A letter does not blush.

— Marcus T. Cicero

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

— Marcus T. Cicero

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

— Marcus T. Cicero

While there's life, there's hope.

— Marcus T. Cicero

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

— Marcus T. Cicero

The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.

— Marcus T. Cicero

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

— Marcus T. Cicero

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

— Marcus T. Cicero

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine.

— Marcus T. Cicero

All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

— Marcus T. Cicero

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

— Marcus T. Cicero

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

— Marcus T. Cicero

There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

— Marcus T. Cicero

The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

— Marcus T. Cicero

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

— Marcus T. Cicero

Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.

— Marcus T. Cicero

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

— Marcus T. Cicero

The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

— Marcus T. Cicero

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

— Marcus T. Cicero

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

— Marcus T. Cicero

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

— Marcus T. Cicero