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Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero

“True nobility is exempt from fear.”

“He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason”

“The countenance is the portrait of the mind, the eyes are its informers”

“To live is to think.”

“I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know”

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

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

“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.”

“What then is freedom ? The power to live as one wishes”

“Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.”

“The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend”

“Hatred is settled anger”

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.”

“Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak”

“Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat”

“In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.”

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

“No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration”

“The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed”

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