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Marcus Tullius Cicero was a prominent philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, and writer during the late Roman Republic. The exact dates of his birth and death are unknown, but he was active in the 1st century BC. Known for his profound thoughts and exceptional literary style, Cicero has had a lasting impact on Western culture.

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Famous Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

“To-morrow will give some food for thought.”

Giving Tomorrow Morrow

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.”

Giving Arms Tongue Warrior Yield Robes Laurels Orators

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.”

Giving Soul Sleep Divine Proof Divine Nature

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.”

Way Giving Mind Balance Argument Weight Presses Scales Yield Demonstration

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.”

Giving Office Judgment Benevolence Liberality

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.”

Giving Law Force Justice Arms Law And Justice

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Tomorrow will give us something to think about”

Thinking Giving Tomorrow

Book:Cicero: Letters to Atticus: Volume 6

Source: Cicero: Letters to Atticus: Volume 6

“To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.”

Giving Wells Features True Friend True Friendship

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.”

People Ifs Men Giving Stills Feelings Lying Depends Promise Concern Refuse Certainty Blank Uncertain Refusal

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.”

People Men Giving Given Leader Office Property Raised Protection Favors Chosen Tyrants Public Office Curry

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions.”

Ifs Giving Advice Wiser Suggestions

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.”

Giving Book Soul House Add Library Librarian Public Library Library Books Libraries And Librarians

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion.”

“Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.”

Knows Giving Should Years Past Hours Months Return

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.”

Giving Wisdom Wise Advice Philosophical Annoying Wiser New Beginnings Giving Advice

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.”

World Giving Soul God Body Religion Bears Endure Stubborn

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Men Giving Justice Ethics Injury Fairness Offense Decency Offense And Defense

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.”

Giving Truth Law Politics Honest Trust Philosophical Dues Honestly

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.”

Ifs Inspirational Needs Giving Should Helping Justice Special Duty

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.”

Ifs Giving Loses Our Lives Stress Affection Charm Kindliness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)

“I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.”

Giving Humans Looks Pleasure Meditation Subjects Garden Delight Insight Innocent Human Life Look Up

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.”

Men Giving Purpose Justice Philosophical Constant Dues Every Man

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.”

Life Giving Should Truth Action Values Virtue Taken Duty Active Neglect Search For Truth True Value Active Life Commendation

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.”

Ifs Men Giving Soul Belief Wish Pleasure Give Me Errors Immortal Nonconformity

Book:Cicero in twenty-nine volumes

Source: Cicero in twenty-nine volumes

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

Men Inspirational Giving Motivational Health Approach Physicians

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.”

Giving Friendship Advice Former Appropriate Latter Bitterness Irritation Giving And Receiving

Book:Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age; Letters of Pliny the Younger

Source: Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age; Letters of Pliny the Younger

“As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.”

Giving Firsts Matter Body Age Past Form Causes Powerful Four Thirds Misery Active Old Age Accomplishment Enjoyment Fourth

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The aim of justice is to give everyone his due.”

Giving Justice Aim Dues Fairness

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero