Life Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

74 Life quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

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When you scroll through Cicero’s thoughts on living, you’ll feel the weight of ancient debates and personal counsel. His words weave civic duty, moral rigor, and personal ambition into a single tapestry of advice that still rings true today.

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Life without learning is death.

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O philosophy, you leader of life.

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History is the teacher of life

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To live is to think.

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There is no life without friendship

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By doubting we come at truth.

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Life is short, but art lives forever.

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The spirit is the true self.

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

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

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The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

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

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

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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

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A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

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Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

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It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

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Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]

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

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Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.

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The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.

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

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In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and…

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Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

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For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what…

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for…

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

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

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I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. .…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.

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No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.

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

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This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

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Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first;…

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“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”

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Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione…

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Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.

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Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

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Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than…

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