Marcus Tullius Cicero Wise Quotations

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.

No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.

No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.

The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized.

We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.

Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.

A wise man does nothing by constraint.

Man must suffer to be wise.

The wise man never loses his temper.

Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?

For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.

We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

Nature herself makes the wise man rich.