Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero, page 3
170 quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero - roman statesman
Also known as: Cicero.
Also called: Cicerone.
Was born on 03 jan 0106.
Died on 07 dec 0043, at -63 years old.
Died on 07 dec 0043, at -63 years old.
Origin country: Italy
Biography: Roman statesman, lawyer, political theorist, philosopher, and Roman constitutionalist. Cicero is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.
I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
MQuote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about wealth
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
MQuote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about knowledge
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.
MQuote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about immortality, error, faith, pleasure, wish, man
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
MQuote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about garden, contentment, need
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
MQuote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about contentment, self-control, life
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.
MQuote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about pleasure, good, good luck, contentment
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
MQuote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about impossible, body, mind
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
MQuote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about rules, power
In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.
MQuote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about contentment, thinking
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
MQuote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about body, mind
It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.
MQuote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about impossible, word, crime, criminals
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
MQuote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about sadness
