Marcus Tullius Cicero quotes

 Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared. 

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Like associates with like.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The good of the people is the greatest law.”

— 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

“There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Before beginning, plan carefully. ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age. ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy. ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Thrift is of great revenue.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“People do not understand what a great revenue economy is. ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ Hatred is settled anger. ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Whatever you do, do with all your might.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent. ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment. ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members. ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero