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Famous Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
Source: Select Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.”
“That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.”
“Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?”
“Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.”
“The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)
“An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.”
Source: On Obligations
Source: Cicero, De Oratore: In Two Volumes
“A man of courage is also full of faith.”
Source: Tusculan Disputations: On the Nature of Gods, and the Commonwealth
“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.”
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.]
Source: De Officiis: (English Edition)
“Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?”
Source: Cicero in Twenty-eight Volumes: Pro Archiapoeta. Post reditum in senatu. Post reditum ad quirites. De domo sua.Deharuspicum responsis. Pro Plancio