Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes And Sayings

What Then Is Freedom? The Power To Live As One Wishes.

Any Man Can Make Mistakes, But Only An Idiot Persists In His Error.

The Enemy Is Within The Gates; It Is With Our Own Luxury, Our Own Folly, Our Own Criminality That We Have To Contend.

The Study And Knowledge Of The Universe Would Somehow Be Lame And Defective Were No Practical Results To Follow.

If I Err In Belief That The Souls Of Men Are Immortal, I Gladly Err, Nor Do I Wish This Error Which Gives Me Pleasure To Be Wrested From Me While I Live.

True Nobility Is Exempt From Fear.

Justice Consists In Doing No Injury To Men; Decency In Giving Them No Offense.

Gratitude Is Not Only The Greatest Of Virtues, But The Parent Of All The Others.

Take From A Man His Reputation For Probity, And The More Shrewd And Clever He Is, The More Hated And Mistrusted He Becomes.

This Is The Truth: As From A Fire Aflame Thousands Of Sparks Come Forth, Even So From The Creator An Infinity Of Beings Have Life And To Him Return Again.

Advice In Old Age Is Foolish; For What Can Be More Absurd Than To Increase Our Provisions For The Road The Nearer We Approach To Our Journey's End.

Every Man Can Tell How Many Goats Or Sheep He Possesses, But Not How Many Friends.

The Countenance Is The Portrait Of The Soul, And The Eyes Mark Its Intentions.

Nothing Is More Noble, Nothing More Venerable Than Fidelity. Faithfulness And Truth Are The Most Sacred Excellences And Endowments Of The Human Mind.

The Rule Of Friendship Means There Should Be Mutual Sympathy Between Them, Each Supplying What The Other Lacks And Trying To Benefit The Other, Always Using Friendly And Sincere Words.

When You Have No Basis For An Argument, Abuse The Plaintiff.

Hatred Is Inveterate Anger.

Confidence Is That Feeling By Which The Mind Embarks In Great And Honorable Courses With A Sure Hope And Trust In Itself.

Brevity Is A Great Charm Of Eloquence.

The Higher We Are Placed, The More Humbly We Should Walk.

We Are Motivated By A Keen Desire For Praise, And The Better A Man Is The More He Is Inspired By Glory. The Very Philosophers Themselves, Even In Those Books Which They Write In Contempt Of Glory, Inscribe Their Names.

Time Destroys The Speculation Of Men, But It Confirms Nature.

Nobody Can Give You Wiser Advice Than Yourself.

In Everything Truth Surpasses The Imitation And Copy.

I Am Not Ashamed To Confess That I Am Ignorant Of What I Do Not Know.

The Sinews Of War Are Infinite Money.

Nothing Is More Unreliable Than The Populace, Nothing More Obscure Than Human Intentions, Nothing More Deceptive Than The Whole Electoral System.

Old Age: The Crown Of Life, Our Play's Last Act.

Love Is The Attempt To Form A Friendship Inspired By Beauty.

It Is The Peculiar Quality Of A Fool To Perceive The Faults Of Others And To Forget His Own.

Any Man Is Liable To Err, Only A Fool Persists In Error.

The Spirit Is The True Self. The Spirit, The Will To Win, And The Will To Excel Are The Things That Endure.

I Never Heard Of An Old Man Forgetting Where He Had Buried His Money! Old People Remember What Interests Them: The Dates Fixed For Their Lawsuits, And The Names Of Their Debtors And Creditors.

It Is Foolish To Tear One's Hair In Grief, As Though Sorrow Would Be Made Less By Baldness.

Knowledge Which Is Divorced From Justice, May Be Called Cunning Rather Than Wisdom.

Nothing Is So Unbelievable That Oratory Cannot Make It Acceptable.

The Greatest Pleasures Are Only Narrowly Separated From Disgust.

The Function Of Wisdom Is To Discriminate Between Good And Evil.

Sweet Is The Memory Of Past Troubles.

Even If You Have Nothing To Write, Write And Say So.

What Is Thine Is Mine, And All Mine Is Thine.

No Sane Man Will Dance.

What Is Permissible Is Not Always Honorable.

Nothing Stands Out So Conspicuously, Or Remains So Firmly Fixed In The Memory, As Something Which You Have Blundered.

Laws Are Silent In Time Of War.

We Should Not Be So Taken Up In The Search For Truth, As To Neglect The Needful Duties Of Active Life; For It Is Only Action That Gives A True Value And Commendation To Virtue.

It Is The Nature Of Every Person To Error, But Only The Fool Perseveres In Error.

What Gift Has Providence Bestowed On Man That Is So Dear To Him As His Children?

While There's Life, There's Hope.

The Harvest Of Old Age Is The Recollection And Abundance Of Blessing Previously Secured.