Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman Statesman
Died: 43 BC
Great Man More Nature Nothing You
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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Memory Guardian All Things Things Treasury
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wisdom Good Good And Evil Evil Between Discriminate Function
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Knowledge Prefer Ignorant
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
Good You Evil Pleasure Pursue Remains Passes Labor Away
An unjust peace is better than a just war. Marcus Tullius Cicero
War Peace Better Unjust Than Just
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Great Eloquence Charm Brevity
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Blessing Age Old Old Age Harvest Secured Recollection Abundance
What is permissible is not always honorable. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Honorable Always Permissible
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nature Fool Every Only Error Person
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Guide Excess Never Go Moderation Your
Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world. Marcus Tullius Cicero
God Food Religion Soul World Seen Sees Gives Bears Feeds Just Endures Body Fills
Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything. Marcus Tullius Cicero
God Nothing Everything Next
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation? Marcus Tullius Cicero
Man Generation Valuable State Rising More Employment Than Who
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Education Food Mind Cultivation Body Necessary
Peace is liberty in tranquillity. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Peace Liberty Tranquillity
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Truth Nature Longing Our Minds Insatiable See Planted
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Man Age Youth Old Mind Pleased Rule Approve Follows Something Never He Him Am May Old Man Body Less
The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Law Precepts Live Honestly Else Everyone Everyone Else Give No-One Due His Injure
According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nature Law Become Only Through No-One Fair Another According Richer Should Injuries Suffered Damages
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
Nature Character Live Our Nurtured Those Circumstances Habits Which Forms Race Much Product Heredity
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Grief Made Hair Sympathy Though Would Would-Be Foolish Sorrow Baldness Less Tear
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wisdom Knowledge Justice Rather Divorced Cunning Than May Which
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Silence Denial Though Admission Either Necessarily
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
Hope Great Confidence Trust Mind Feeling Honorable Sure Courses Itself Which
Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Money Nothing Strongly Taken Cannot Fortified
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Those Obstacle Learn Authority Often Want Teach Who
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