Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.

2. We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her. Selected Works

3. 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.

4. Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.) De Divinatione

5. The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

6. Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

7. To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.

8. Utinam tam facile vera invenire possim quam falsa convincere. De Natura Deorum

9. While there's life, there's hope.