Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Ancient Roman Military Personnel
Ancient Roman Politician
Ancient Roman Priest
Jurist
Lawyer
Orator
Philosopher
Poet
Political Theorist
Dallas
Texas
Marcus Tullius Cicero
M. Tullii Ciceronis
Marcus Tullius -- Translations into French Cicero
Silence
Either
Though
Admission
Denial
Philosophical
Necessarily
Quiet
More quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
What is dignity without honesty?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Frugality includes all the other virtues.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
They condemn what they do not understand.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
I cannot find a faithful message-bearer, he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
A true friend is a sort of second self.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man.
Marcus Tullius Cicero