Cicero Quotes

24 quotes by 20 authors

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto… — Saint Augustine
Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The minds of youth are perpetually led to the history of Greece and Rime or to Great Britain; Boys are constantly repeating the declamations of… — Noah Webster
He he he... Crazy? Cicero? He he he he! That's... madness... — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother. Thank… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Cicero is dead! Cicero is born! The laughter has filled me, filled me so very completely. I am the laughter. I am the jester. The… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of… — Thomas Hobbes
By these pleasures it is permitted to relax the mind with play, in turmoils of the mind, or when our labors are light, or in… — Gerolamo Cardano
Cicero calls gratitude the mother of virtues the most capital of all duties, and uses the words grateful and good as synonymous terms, inseparably united… — Julius Bate
I would rather be an expert on me than on Cicero — Michel de Montaigne
What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has the… — Jean Paul
In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero. — Saint Augustine
History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and Galileo took that… — Mehmet Murat Ildan
The anarchist is dressed all in black. In the dark you can only see his eyes. It dates from the 1930's. Porky Pig is a… — Thomas Pynchon
That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even… — Hannah More
There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The influence of the… — Henry Clay
Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road. — Robert Harris
Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them… — Robert Harris
The vanity extended most of all to his library, arguably the real love of Cicero's life. It is difficult to name anything in which he… — Stacy Schiff
Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and military leaders of… — Brendan Myers

Who Wrote These Cicero Quotes

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