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title: "63 Cicero Quotes by 45 authors"
description: "Browse 63 Cicero quotes by 45 authors. Discover the best Cicero sayings and thoughts."
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> [“I would rather be an authority on myself than on Cicero.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-montaigne-1533-1592/i-would-rather-be-an-authority-on-myself-than-on-cicero/)

[Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-montaigne-1533-1592/)

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> [Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-harris/cicero-most-reminds-me-of-harold-wilson-both-men-knew-how-to-keep-the/)

[Robert Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-harris/)

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> [I would rather be an expert on me than on Cicero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-montaigne/i-would-rather-be-an-expert-on-me-than-on-cicero/)

[Michel de Montaigne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-montaigne/)

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> [“Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.” — Cicero”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cicero/memory-is-the-treasury-and-guardian-of-all-things-cicero/)

[Cicero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cicero/)

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> [Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-addison/who-does-not-more-admire-cicero-as-an-author-than-as-a-consul-of-rome/)

[Joseph Addison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-addison/)

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> [As I continued through Cicero's pages, I found much more material celebrating my way of life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlie-munger/as-i-continued-through-cicero-s-pages-i-found-much-more-material/)

[Charlie Munger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlie-munger/)

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> [He he he... Crazy? Cicero? He he he he! That's... madness...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-tullius-cicero/he-he-he-crazy-cicero-he-he-he-he-that-s-madness/)

[Marcus Tullius Cicero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-tullius-cicero/)

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> [“Cicero considera ca tot ce se intampla dupa o lunga asteptare e mai usor de suportat.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cristian-niculcea/cicero-considera-ca-tot-ce-se-intampla-dupa-o-lunga-asteptare-e-mai/)

[Cristian Niculcea](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cristian-niculcea/)

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> [“Cicero argues that the source of justice, truth, virtue, etc.—in a word, morality—is natural law. It is permanent and supreme, unalterable by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-r-levin/cicero-argues-that-the-source-of-justice-truth-virtue-etc-in-a-word/)

[Mark R. Levin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-r-levin/)

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> [“Men may construe things, after their fashion / Clean them from the purpose of the things themselves -Cicero”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/men-may-construe-things-after-their-fashion-clean-them-from-the/)

[William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/)

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> [“In towering letters Cicero’s words were engraved over the library entrance. Who knows only his own generation remains always a child.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-lafferty/in-towering-letters-cicero-s-words-were-engraved-over-the-library/)

[Linda Lafferty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-lafferty/)

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> [“Cicero himself appeared, hand in hand with Tullia, nodding good morning to everyone, greeting each by name (“the first rule in politics,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-harris/cicero-himself-appeared-hand-in-hand-with-tullia-nodding-good-morning/)

[Robert Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-harris/)

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> [“Days when I came to flower serenely in Lycée gardens long ago, and read my Apuleius keenly, but spared no glance for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pushkin/days-when-i-came-to-flower-serenely-in-lyc-e-gardens-long-ago-and/)

[Alexander Pushkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pushkin/)

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> [It is observed by Cicero, that men of the greatest and most shining parts are most actuated by ambition.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-addison/it-is-observed-by-cicero-that-men-of-the-greatest-and-most-shining/)

[Joseph Addison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-addison/)

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> [Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plutarch/cicero-said-loud-bawling-orators-were-driven-by-their-weakness-to/)

[Plutarch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plutarch/)

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> [Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-harris/another-of-cicero-s-maxims-was-that-if-you-must-do-something/)

[Robert Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-harris/)

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> [“Speak as educated nature suggests to you, and you will do well, but let it be educated and not raw, rude, uncultivated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-spurgeon/speak-as-educated-nature-suggests-to-you-and-you-will-do-well-but-let/)

[Charles Spurgeon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-spurgeon/)

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> [“This argument—“We are all of us carried along by a fiery zeal to recover our liberty; our arms cannot be wrested from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-p-halbrook/this-argument-we-are-all-of-us-carried-along-by-a-fiery-zeal-to/)

[Stephen P. Halbrook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-p-halbrook/)

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> [“Cicero often asked me to perform small services for Milo during that campaign. For example, I went back through our files and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-harris/cicero-often-asked-me-to-perform-small-services-for-milo-during-that/)

[Robert Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-harris/)

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> [“Feeling he’d captured the throng, Trost decided to get literary. “Salus populi suprema lex esto.” She looked at me. “What the fuck…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/craig-johnson/feeling-he-d-captured-the-throng-trost-decided-to-get-literary-salus/)

[Craig Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/craig-johnson/)

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> [with a mental equipment which allows me to tell the difference between hot and cold, I stand out in this community like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anita-loos/with-a-mental-equipment-which-allows-me-to-tell-the-difference/)

[Anita Loos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anita-loos/)

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> [“Petrarch sometimes wrote letters to long-dead authors. He was also a dedicated hunter of classic manuscripts. Once, after discovering some previously unknown…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-markson/petrarch-sometimes-wrote-letters-to-long-dead-authors-he-was-also-a/)

[David Markson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-markson/)

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> [As a Roman philosopher, Cicero, said of him a few hundred years later, Socrates 'called philosophy down from the sky and established…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jostein-gaarder/as-a-roman-philosopher-cicero-said-of-him-a-few-hundred-years-later/)

[Jostein Gaarder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jostein-gaarder/)

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> [“Throw that dreary man Cicero out of the window, and request the divine Virgil (with the utmost love and respect) to take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/throw-that-dreary-man-cicero-out-of-the-window-and-request-the-divine/)

[Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/)

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> [I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-reagan/i-want-you-to-know-that-also-i-will-not-make-age-an-issue-of-this-2/)

[Ronald Reagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-reagan/)

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> [The best stuff that Cicero wrote, in the first century in Rome, were the Philippics, a series of speeches that he delivered…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-d-agata/the-best-stuff-that-cicero-wrote-in-the-first-century-in-rome-were/)

[John D'Agata](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-d-agata/)

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> [“Philo of Larisa, head of the Academy in Athens…inspired Cicero with a passion for philosophy, and in particular for the theories of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-everitt/philo-of-larisa-head-of-the-academy-in-athens-inspired-cicero-with-a/)

[Anthony Everitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-everitt/)

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> [“Surely the greatest mercy granted us by Providence is our ignorance of the future. Imagine if we knew the outcome of our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-harris/surely-the-greatest-mercy-granted-us-by-providence-is-our-ignorance/)

[Robert Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-harris/)

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> [“Kant’s conception of dignity is indebted to Cicero and the Roman conception of dignitas, according to which dignity is an elevated position…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-sensen/kant-s-conception-of-dignity-is-indebted-to-cicero-and-the-roman/)

[Oliver Sensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-sensen/)

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> [The vanity extended most of all to his library, arguably the real love of Cicero's life. It is difficult to name anything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/the-vanity-extended-most-of-all-to-his-library-arguably-the-real-love/)

[Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/)

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> [“No one can really claim to know politics properly until he has stayed up all night writing a speech for delivery the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-harris/no-one-can-really-claim-to-know-politics-properly-until-he-has-stayed/)

[Robert Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-harris/)

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> [“At bottom, politics was a hullabaloo of equal and individual competitors who would only be guaranteed to cooperate for one cause: the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-everitt/at-bottom-politics-was-a-hullabaloo-of-equal-and-individual/)

[Anthony Everitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-everitt/)

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> [“Yes, I think a lot happened here. This fountain in the wall. Pico and Lorenzo and Poliziano and the young Michelangelo. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ondaatje/yes-i-think-a-lot-happened-here-this-fountain-in-the-wall-pico-and/)

[Michael Ondaatje](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ondaatje/)

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> [“There is a story that Simonides was dining at the house of a wealthy nobleman named Scopas at Crannon in Thessaly, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-tullius-cicero/there-is-a-story-that-simonides-was-dining-at-the-house-of-a-wealthy/)

[Marcus Tullius Cicero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-tullius-cicero/)

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> [“And yet in the weakest of men, in moments when they are alone and themselves, I have found veins of strength like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-edward-williams/and-yet-in-the-weakest-of-men-in-moments-when-they-are-alone-and/)

[John Edward Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-edward-williams/)

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> [“Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-g-ingersoll/why-should-we-place-christ-at-the-top-and-summit-of-the-human-race/)

[Robert G. Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-g-ingersoll/)

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> [“Well, good luck to you both. Rome will be the winner whoever is the victor'. Cicero began to move away but then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-harris/well-good-luck-to-you-both-rome-will-be-the-winner-whoever-is-the/)

[Robert Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-harris/)

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> [“No one dances while he is sober. Unless he happens to be a lunatic. -Cicero”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/no-one-dances-while-he-is-sober-unless-he-happens-to-be-a-lunatic/)

[Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/)

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> [“In time of war the law falls silent. —Marcus Tullius Cicero, 52 BC”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-c-rich/in-time-of-war-the-law-falls-silent-marcus-tullius-cicero-52-bc/)

[Frederic C. Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-c-rich/)

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> [In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/in-the-usual-course-of-study-i-had-come-to-a-book-of-a-certain-cicero/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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## Top authors on Cicero

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-robert-harris-79827.jpg) Robert Harris 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cicero/robert-harris/)

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                        "text": "I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience. [Laughter and applause] If I still have time, I might add that it was Seneca or it was Cicero, I don't know which, that said, If it was not for the elders correcting the mistakes of the young, there would be no state.''",
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                        "text": "“Surely the greatest mercy granted us by Providence is our ignorance of the future. Imagine if we knew the outcome of our hopes and plans, or could see the manner in which we are doomed to die - how ruined our lives would be! Instead we live on dumbly from day to day as happily as animals. But all things must come to dust eventually. No human being, no system, no age is impervious to this law; everything beneath the stars will perish; the hardest rock will be worn away. Nothing endures but words.”",
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                        "text": "“Well, good luck to you both. Rome will be the winner whoever is the victor'. Cicero began to move away but then checked himself, and a slight frown crossed his face. He returned to Catulus. 'One more thing, if I may? Who proposed this widening of the franchise?' 'Caesar' Although Latin is a language rich in subtlety and metaphor, I cannot command the words, either in that tongue or even in Greek, to describe Cicero's expression at that moment. 'Dear gods' he said in a tone of utter shock. 'Is it possible he means to stand himself?' 'Of course not. That would be ridiculous. He's far too young. He's thirty-six. He's not yet even been elected praetor' 'Yes, but even so, in my opinion, you would be well advised to reconvene your college as quickly as possible and go back to the existing method of selection.' 'That is impossible' 'Why?' 'The bill to change the franchise was laid before the people this morning' 'By whom?' 'Labienus' 'Ah!' Cicero clapped his hand to his forehead.”",
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