Inspirational Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Pardon is granted to necessity.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The freedom of poetic license.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Taxes are the sinews of the state.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

To live long, live slowly.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Justice renders to every one his due.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Man is his own worst enemy.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

After victory, you have more enemies.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Genius is fostered by industry.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Everything is alive... Everything is interconnected.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Inhumanity is harmful in every age. - Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods, than in giving health to men.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Our generosity never should exceed our abilities.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received,…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Generosity should never exceed ability.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

O philosophy, you leader of life.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let the punishment match the offense.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let your desires be ruled by reason.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Virtue is its own reward.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

As I breathe, I hope.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

No one has leave to sin.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Through doubt we arrive at the truth.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Strain every nerve to gain your point.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

No one dances sober, unless he is insane.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero