Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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

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The best interpreter of the law is custom.

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Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

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There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.

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He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.

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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child

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Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

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No one dances sober, unless he is insane.

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There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

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There is no moment without some duty.

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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

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A man has no enemy worse than himself.

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What is permissible is not always honorable.

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For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

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The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.

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The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

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Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)

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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

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