Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

By doubting we come at truth.

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The aim of justice is to give everyone his due.

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It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

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For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?

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This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

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Before beginning, prepare carefully.

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According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

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Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

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If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

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

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To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.

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What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?

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In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

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The spirit is the true self.

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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

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Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.

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No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

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To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]

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This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

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As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.

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