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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.

“To some extent I liken slavery to death.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Death

All Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“A man of courage is also full of faith.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Courage

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Education

“In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Health

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Gardening

“What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom

“I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Education

“Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Best

“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

“In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Truth

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Sympathy

“There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men

“The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Best

“Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Education

“People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Great

“In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Power

“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

“Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom

“Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature

“The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Knowledge

“No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Great