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Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC) was a Roman statesman, orator, lawyer, and philosopher who is widely considered one of Rome's greatest speakers and prose stylists. His writings on politics, law, and philosophy deeply influenced the development of European languages and ideas about republican government.

“Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Wisdom

All Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“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

“Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Food

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Power

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men

“Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Money

“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

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Education

“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

Age

“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

Men

“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

Food

“Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Beauty

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Sympathy

“Hatred is inveterate anger.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Anger

“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

Friendship

“Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Education

“While there's life, there's hope.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Hope

“Peace is liberty in tranquillity.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Peace

“Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marriage

“Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship