Top 100 Tullius Quotes

#1. Everything is indefinite, misty, and transient; only virtue is clear, and it cannot be destroyed by any force. - MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO

Leo Tolstoy

#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. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Tom Standage

#3. Either the future is subject to chance
in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other
or it is predestined, in which case foreknowledge cannot avert it.
Quintus Tullius Cicero

Anthony Everitt

#4. Growing up in the Sacramento Valley in the '70s, we were all pretty big into cars. Of course, I had to nerd out and be a fan of Bob Tullius' Group 44 Jaguars instead of Corvettes/Camaros.

Gabe Newell

#5. The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#6. He he he ... Crazy? Cicero? He he he he! That's ... madness ...

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#7. For as I like a man in whom there is something of the old, so I like a man in whom there is something of the young; and he who follows this maxim, in body will possibly be an old man but he will never be an old man in mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#8. No sober person dances.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#9. Friends are proved by adversity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#10. It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#11. A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#12. No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#13. The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#14. The counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#15. Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#16. We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#17. Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#18. For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#19. Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#20. Inhumanity is harmful in every age. - Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#21. There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#22. That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#23. The real friend is another self.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24. To live long it is necessary to live slowly.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#25. It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#26. Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#27. Life is nothing without friendship.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#28. There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#29. Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#30. The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#31. There is a difference between justice and consideration in one's relations to one's fellow men. It is the function of justice not to do wrong to one's fellow men of considerateness, not to wound their feelings.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#32. Salus populi suprema est lex [the good of the people is the chief law].

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#33. The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#34. When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#35. The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.
[Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem affert loci.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#36. Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#37. The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#38. It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#39. Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#40. Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#41. It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#42. Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#43. The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#44. The foundation of justice is good faith.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#45. Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#46. The freedom of poetic license.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#47. An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home.
[Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#48. It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#49. The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized.

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#50. He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#51. The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#52. Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#53. Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#54. There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#55. It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#56. We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#57. There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#58. Nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere.
(No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.)

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#59. It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.
[Lat., Stultum est in luctu capillum sibi evellere, quasi calvito maeror levaretur.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#60. It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#61. What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#62. The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#63. The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

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#64. Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

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#65. The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret
that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#66. Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#67. He who suffers, remembers.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#68. True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#69. My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything bad which Nature makes inevitable.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#70. Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

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#71. There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#72. To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#73. In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods, than in giving health to men.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#74. No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#75. Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#76. Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#77. The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#78. Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#79. Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#80. Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#81. Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#82. It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#83. Everything is indefinite, misty, and transient; only virtue is clear, and it cannot be destroyed by any force. - MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO

Leo Tolstoy

#84. Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#85. As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#86. I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#87. Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#88. That man is guilty of impertinence who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject of his discourse, or pays no regard to the company he is in.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#90. All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

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#91. The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#92. Those who lack within themselves the means for living a blessed and happy life will find any age painful.
- How to grow old: ancient wisdom for the second half of life.

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#93. I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#94. Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#95. It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.

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#96. Non nobis solum nati sumus.
(Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

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#97. He is rich who wishes no more than he has.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#98. Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#99. Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#100. A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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