96 quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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“Nature abhors annihilation.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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“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

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“Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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“While there's life, there's hope.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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““A room without books is like a body without a soul.”” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“An unjust peace is better than a just war.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“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

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“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

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“Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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“Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“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

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“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

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“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 Tullius Cicero

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““A room without books is like a body without a soul.”” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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