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Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Total quotes: 16
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero, How to Grow Old: Ancient Wisdom for the Second Half of Life
Tagged: library, Garden, Hobbies
“It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgement; in these qualities old age is usually not only not poorer, but is even richer.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Tagged: Muscle, speed, Dexterity, character, Judgment
“Above all, the search after truth and its eager pursuit are peculiar to man.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Officiis
Tagged: Truth, Truthseeking
“There are, on the other hand, two kinds of injustice—the one, on the part of those who inflict wrong, the other on the part of those who, when they can, do not shield from wrong those upon whom it is being inflicted.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Officiis
Tagged: Injustice
“For things are in a bad way, when that which should be obtained by merit is attempted by money.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Officiis
Tagged: Merit, Money, Meritocracy
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero, CICERO, Orator | Loeb Classical Library
Tagged: Ignorance, Child, Ancestors, History
“The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cicero: Selected Works
Tagged: Enemy Within, Own Worst Enemy, Criminality
“The only excuse, therefore, for going to war is that we may live in peace unharmed; and when the victory is won, we should spare those who have not been bloodthirsty and barbarous in their warfare.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Officiis
Tagged: Peace, War
“The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cicero: Philippics I-II(Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
Tagged: Life Is Short, eternal
“For the function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil; whereas, inasmuch as all things morally wrong are evil, trickery prefers the evil to the good.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Tagged: Wisdom, Good, Evil, Trickery
“In times of war, the law falls silent.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pro Milone- Wikipedia
Tagged: War, Law, Anarchy, Mob Rule
“To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero, Tusculan Disputations
Tagged: Philosophy, Mortality
“Cunning is not wisdom.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Officiis
Tagged: Cunning, Wisdom
“There is said to be hope for a sick man, as long as there is life.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Tagged: Hope, Life
“First of all, Nature has endowed every species1 of living creature with the instinct of self-preservation, of avoiding what seems likely to cause injury to life or limb, and of procuring and providing everything needful for life—food, shelter, and the like.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Officiis
Tagged: Nature, self-preservation, Life, Limb, food, Shelter
“Now I am aware of no people, however refined and learned or however savage and ignorant, which does not think that signs are given of future events, and that certain persons can recognize those signs and foretell events before they occur.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Senectute De Amicitia De Divinatione
Tagged: Prophecy, Fortune Tellers
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