Cicero Quotes
Roman statesman and orator whose writings on friendship, old age and duty shaped European letters. Cicero's graceful Latin prose is still quoted on gratitude and time. Below are 16 of the most loved Cicero quotes, chosen from across their works and letters. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
While there's life, there's hope.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
The beginnings of all things are small.
A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.
The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.