Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A letter does not blush.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What is permissible is not always honorable.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

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O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Ability without honor is useless.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Marcus Tullius Cicero