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Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

It is foolish to tear ones hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

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

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

To live is to think.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

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

Hatred is inveterate anger.

A home without books is a body without soul.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

More law, less justice.