Quotes and Sayings by Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicerowas born in January 3, 106 BC – December 7, 43 BC. He is a very well renown Author and thinker, and was a Roman statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and philosopher. Cicero is widely considered one of Rome’s greatest orators and prose stylists.
Cicero is mostly seen as one of the greatest minds of Roman culture and his writing are treated to be the paragon of Classical Latin. He introduced the Romans to the chief schools of Greek philosophy and created a Latin philosophical vocabulary. An impressive orator and successful lawyer, Cicero likely thought his political career his most important achievement. However, today he is appreciated primarily for his humanism and philosophical and political writings. His voluminous correspondence, much of it addressed to his friend Atticus, has been especially influential, introducing the art of refined letter writing to European culture. Cornelius Nepos, the 1st-century BC biographer of Atticus, remarked that Cicero’s letters to Atticus contained such a wealth of detail “concerning the inclinations of leading men, the faults of the generals, and the revolutions in the government” that their reader had little need for a history of the period [more about Cicero]
Here is a compilation of Quotes by the Famous Cicero.
Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.
At whose sight, like the sun, All others with diminish’d lustre shone.
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to the second or even the third rank.
No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.
We are born poets. we become orators.
He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.
Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober.
His deeds do not agree with his words.
Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
All the arts which belong to polished life have some common tie, and are connect as it were by some relationship.