Authors:

Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 26

All Quotes Abuse Adversity Affection Age Aging Anxiety Army Art Atheism Authority Beauty Beer Belief Benevolence Bravery Business Change Character Children Community Conscience Consciousness Country Courage Criticism Dance Dancing Death Democracy Desire Difficulty Dignity Doubt Duty Earth Economy Education Envy Eternity Evil Exercise Exes Fairness Family Fear Feelings Fidelity Food Freedom Friends Friendship Frugality Funny Genius Giving Glory God Goodness Grace Gratitude Greatness Grief Grieving Guilt Happiness Hate Hatred Health Heart Heaven History Home Honesty Honor Hope House Human Nature Hunger Ignorance Imitation Immortality Injury Injustice Inspiration Inspirational Journey Joy Judging Judgment Justice Kindness Knowledge Labor Latin Laughter Leadership Learning Liars Liberty Life Love Lust Lying Mankind Memories Military Modesty Money Motivation Motivational Nature Offense Office Old Age Opportunity Pain Passion Past Peace Persuasion Philosophy Pleasure Poetry Politics Power Praise Preparation Prosperity Prudence Purpose Quality Quitting Reading Reality Religion Respect Revenge Science Security Shame Silence Sin Slavery Sorrow Soul Study Stupidity Success Suffering Talent Teaching Thankfulness Time Tranquility Trust Truth Tyranny Understanding Victory Violence Virtue Waiting War Water Wealth Winning Wisdom Work Worship Writing Youth
Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.

Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosopher, Absurd, Said

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “De Officiis: (English Edition)”, p.149, LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Time, Nature, Philosophical

History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Memories, Reality, History Of Life

We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wisdom, Understanding, Enjoy

Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Calumny Is, Calumny

Our liberality should not exceed our ability.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Should, Ability, Exceed

Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Revenge, Opportunity, Enmity
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1715). “M. Tully Cicero's five books of Tusculan disputations, done into Engl. by a gentleman of Christ Church college, Oxford”, p.152

Philosophy is the true mother of science.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Mother, Philosophy

Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Queens, Mistress, Ratios

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Curiosity, Inquiry, Excellent

When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Character, Men, Judging

It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Young Friends, Age, Duty
On Old Age XI.35

Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Writing, Learning, Science

Law stands mute in the midst of arms.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Law, Arms, Midst
"Pro Milone". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 52 BC.

It is a great thing to know your vices.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Vices, Great Things, Knows

Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Science, Men, Genius

Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Apollo, Earth, Sacred
Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.2946, Delphi Classics

The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Good Intentions, Consciousness, Solace
"Epistles", V. 4, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 518-19,

Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Weather, Advice, Pilots

Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Ignorance, Evil, Approach

Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Eye, Lovers, Difficult

But if you should take the bond of goodwill out of the universe no house or city could stand, nor would even the tillage of the fields abide. If that statement is not clear, then you may understand how great is the power of friendship and of concord from a consideration of the results of enmity and disagreement. For what house is so strong, or what state so enduring that it cannot be utterly overthrown by animosities and division?

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Strong, Cities, House
Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Armistead Falconer (1923). “Cicero in twenty-nine volumes”

The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Comfort, Misery
"Epistles". VI. 3,

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 Tullius Cicero
Law, Umpires, Judging

You May Also Like: