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A list of the best Cicero quotes. This list is arranged by which famous Cicero quotes have received the most votes, so only the greatest Cicero quotes are at the top of the list. All the most popular quotes from Cicero should be listed here, but if any were missed you can add more at the end of the list. This list includes notable Cicero quotes on various subjects, many of which are inspirational and thought provoking.

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145 15
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. Cicero

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102 9
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. Cicero

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236 43
The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt, the mobs should be forced to work and not depend on government for subsistence. Cicero

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91 8
A room without books is like a body without a soul. Cicero

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90 8
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. Cicero

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106 11
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. Cicero

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39 2
Friends are proved by adversity. Cicero

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62 5
As you have sown so shall you reap. Cicero

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62 5
They condemn what they do not understand. Cicero

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46 3
The good of the people is the greatest law. Cicero

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66 6
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. Cicero

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50 4
Virtue is its own reward. Cicero

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81 10
Life is nothing without friendship. Cicero

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14 0
Reason should direct and appetite obey. Cicero

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42 3
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error. Cicero

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42 3
Let reason govern desire. Cicero

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34 2
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom. Cicero

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72 9
While there's life, there's hope. Cicero

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40 3
I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own. Cicero

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46 4
The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory. Cicero

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23 1
It is better to receive than to do injury. Cicero

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23 1
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. Cicero

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23 1
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. Cicero

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49 5
I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know. Cicero

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37 3
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind. Cicero

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22 1
It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances. Cicero

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56 7
Before beginning, plan carefully. Cicero

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47 5
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence. Cicero

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29 2
michaelj72 added If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

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35 3
There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration. Cicero

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35 3
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. Cicero

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21 1
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Cicero

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40 4
The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves. Cicero

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28 2
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it. Cicero

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28 2
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge. Cicero

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28 2
A friend is, as it were, a second self. Cicero

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34 3
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. Cicero

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52 7
Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak. Cicero

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39 4
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it. Cicero

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20 1
We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind. Cicero

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20 1
They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper. Cicero

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11 0
Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties. Cicero

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37 4
Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually? Cicero

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36 4
michaelj72 added Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

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36 4
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. Cicero

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40 5
Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense. Cicero

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18 1
There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act. Cicero

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18 1
Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense. Cicero

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18 1
There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace. Cicero

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10 0
The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish. Cicero