114 Quotes By Marcus Tullius Cicero


It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
Marcus Tullius Cicero on great

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
Marcus Tullius Cicero on great

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 on great

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
Marcus Tullius Cicero on great

Thrift is of great revenue.
Marcus Tullius Cicero on great

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
Marcus Tullius Cicero on great

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
Marcus Tullius Cicero on great

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
Marcus Tullius Cicero on great

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Marcus Tullius Cicero on happiness

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
Marcus Tullius Cicero on health

A home without books is a body without soul.
Marcus Tullius Cicero on home

While there's life, there's hope.
Marcus Tullius Cicero on hope

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 on hope

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero on knowledge

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Marcus Tullius Cicero on knowledge

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
Marcus Tullius Cicero on knowledge

The more laws, the less justice.
Marcus Tullius Cicero on legal

While there's life, there's hope.
Marcus Tullius Cicero on life

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
Marcus Tullius Cicero on life

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.
Marcus Tullius Cicero on life