Cicero Quotes: 20 Best Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
Marcus Tullius Cicero (3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC), also known by the anglicized name Tully, in and after the Middle Ages, was a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul and constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.
Below are 20 Best Cicero Quotes:
Cicero Quotes
1. A room without books is like a body without a soul.
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
2. For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture.
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
3. Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
4. Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
5. Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
6. A man of courage is also full of faith.
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
7. Never injure a friend, even in jest.
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
8. Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
9. While there's life, there's hope.
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
10. True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
11. Nothing dries sooner than a tear.
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
12. No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
13. The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
14. That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
15. In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
16. It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
17. To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
18. Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
19. Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
20. The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
See more Inspirational Quotes, LIFE Quotes and LOVE Quotes of many Famous Authors
Previous
