Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight of the argument. Indeed the authority of those who set out to teach is often an impediment to those who wish to learn. They cease to use their own judgment and regard as gospel whatever is put forward by their chosen teacher.

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Our liberality should not exceed our ability.

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As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.

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Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

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There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

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There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

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The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.

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Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

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All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

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To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

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Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.

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A s laws multiply, injustice increases.

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Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.

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They condemn what they do not understand.

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The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.

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No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

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We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

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Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]

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A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

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