Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.

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No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.

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There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.

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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

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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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The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

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Every animal loves itself.

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Calamus fortior gladio.

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Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God

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Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.

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

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We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.

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It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

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To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.

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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

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Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]

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What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?

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Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

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When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

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