Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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

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What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.

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An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.

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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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Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue.

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Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.

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Calamus fortior gladio.

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In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

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Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

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Never injure a friend, even in jest.

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Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

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By doubting we come at truth.

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Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,' is a discreditable one, and should not be admitted for a moment. We should ask from friends and do for friends only what is good.

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Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.

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Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.

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Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?

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Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

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The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

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Ability without honor is useless.

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