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Famous Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
“Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.”
Source: Cicero de Amicitia (on Friendship) and Scipio's Dream
“A man of courage is also full of faith.”
Source: Tusculan Disputations: On the Nature of Gods, and the Commonwealth
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.”
Source: Select Orations of Marcus T. Cicero: together with the Treatises on Old Age and Friendship. Literally translated by the Rev. Dr. M'Kay ... Second edition
“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.”
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”
“The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.”
“While there's life, there's hope.”
Source: The Life and Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero: Being a New Translation of the Letters Included in Mr. Watsons's Selection
“It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.”
“A friend is, as it were, a second self.”
Source: M. Tullii Ciceronis, De Senectute Et De Amicitiâ
“Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.”
“The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.”
Source: De Officiis
“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”
“The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.”
Source: De Officiis: (English Edition)
Source: Thoughts of Cicero, on the following subjects, viz. I. Religion, II. Man ... XII. Miscellaneous thoughts. Published in Latin and French by the Abbé d'Olivet; to which is now added, an English translation, with notes. [By Alexander Wishart.]
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.”
Source: Brutus
Source: De Officiis Or on Duties on Obligations