Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

• A man of courage is also full of faith.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2005). “Tusculan Disputations: On the Nature of Gods, and the Commonwealth”, p.97, Cosimo, Inc.

• An unjust peace is better than a just war.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, War, Philosophical

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Love, Life, Family

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1975). “De officiis”, Loeb Classical Library

• By doubting we come at truth.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Truth, Doubt

• While there's life, there's hope.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Hope, Latin

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1880). “The Life and Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero: Being a New Translation of the Letters Included in Mr. Watsons's Selection”

• The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Life, Memories

• Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Time, Age

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Melmoth (1820). “Essays on old age and friendship”, p.70

• The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Men, Doe

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1857). “Cicero's Three Books of Offices: Or Moral Duties; Also His Cato Major ... Laelius ... Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Tr., with Notes ...”, p.311

• Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Philosophy, Home

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “De Officiis: (English Edition)”, p.149, LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.

• A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.2759, Delphi Classics

• The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Military, Glory

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero (2006). “De Officiis Or on Duties on Obligations”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

• The spirit is the true self.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Spiritual, Self

  'De Republica' bk. 6, ch. 26

• Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Fixed, Payment

  "Tusculanarum Disputationum". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 39), translated, 45 BC.

• No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Short Life, Character

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 440-55, Tusculanarum Disputationum, I. 45, 1922.

• Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Home, Adversity

• The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Philosophical, Men

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Birthday, Philosophical

• 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

  Life, Truth, Taken

• For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Home, Phases

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3065, Delphi Classics

• Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Long, Shows

• For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Change, Time

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