Marcus Tullius Cicero's Quotes

Marcus Tullius Cicero's Quotes 172

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the...

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and...

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust...

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

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not...

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in...

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Nature abhors annihilation.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

To live is to think.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

More law, less justice.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective...

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than...

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

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