Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To live is to think.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

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.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The more laws, the less justice.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

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In time of war the laws are silent.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Laws are silent in time of war.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The sinews of war are infinite money.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero