quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"A home without books is a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it. "
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Not to know what happened before you were born is to be forever a child"
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum
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— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"laws are silent in times of war"
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"nemo enim umquam est oratorem, quod Latine loqueretur, admiratus; si est aliter, inrident neque eum oratorem tantum modo, sed hominem non putant.
[No one has ever been astonished by an orator because he can speak Latin correctly; if he speaks any other way, not only do they mock him as an orator, they do not even think he's human.]"
— Marcus Tullius Cicero (Cicero: On the Orator: Book 3. On Fate. Stoic Paradoxes. On the Divisions of Oratory: A. Rhetorical Treatises (Loeb Classical Library No. 349))

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

""A home without books is a body without soul."


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— Marcus Tullius Cicero