Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

He he he... Crazy? Cicero? He he he he! That's... madness.

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Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

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An ancient custom obtains force of nature.

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The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.

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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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Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

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Through doubt we arrive at the truth.

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You may never be less alone than when you are alone.

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I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

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It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.

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

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Calamus fortior gladio.

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Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory of our empire, the dignity of our name, the customs of our ancestors.

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If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

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Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

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He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

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

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He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.

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It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.

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