Life Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

To live is to think.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

History is the teacher of life

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

O philosophy, you leader of life.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life without learning is death.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life is short, but art lives forever.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The spirit is the true self.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

By doubting we come at truth.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no life without friendship

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Man's life is ruled by fortune, not by wisdom.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

While the sick man has life, there is hope.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home. [Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain,…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root,…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

We must be ever on the search for some persons whom we shall love and who will love us in return. If…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Old age has been charged with being insensible to pleasure and to enjoyments arising from the gratification of the senses, a most…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable?…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I have the better right to indulgence herein, because my devotion to letters strengthens my oratorical powers, and these, such as they…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero