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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To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.

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Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

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Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

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The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.

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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions.

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Unraveling the web of Penelope.

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This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

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Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

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After victory, you have more enemies.

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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

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They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.

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No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

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Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)

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O philosophy, you leader of life.

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He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.

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It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

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An unjust peace is better than a just war.

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Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.

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It is necessary for a Senator to be thoroughly acquainted with the constitution; and this is a knowledge of the most extensive nature; a matter of science, of diligence, of reflection, without which no Senator can possibly be fit for his office.

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