Quotations From MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO

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• 1.

  Their very silence is a loud cry.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), Roman orator, philosopher, statesman. I, 21.
  
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• 2.

  The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), Roman orator, philosopher, statesman. II, 168.
• 3.

  No place is so strongly fortified that money could not capture it.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), Roman orator, philosopher, statesman. I, ii, 4.
  
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• 4.

  Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), Roman orator, philosopher, statesman. De re publica, VI, xxiv, 26.
• 5.

  Oh the times! Oh the customs![O tempora! O mores!].

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), Roman orator, philosopher. In Catalinam, speech 1, ch. 1 (63 B.C.).
• 6.

  The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), Roman orator, philosopher, statesman. II, 167.
• 7.

  The nobler a man is, the harder for him to suspect baseness in others.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), Roman orator, philosopher, statesman. I, 4, 12.
• 8.

  In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), Roman orator, philosopher, statesman. Gaius.
• 9.

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), Roman orator, philosopher, statesman. Epistulae ad Familiares, VI, 2, 2.
  
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• 10.

  Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), Roman orator, philosopher, statesman. Epistulae ad Familiares, I, 9, 21.