Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

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There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

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If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

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"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."

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Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.

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I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.

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The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

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It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

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In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated by a combination of rights. And by this definition it appears that a multitude of men may be just as tyrannical as a single despot and indeed this is the most odious of all tyrannies, since no monster can be more barbarous than the mob, which assumes the name and mask of the people.

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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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Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself. [Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]

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We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means.

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Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

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Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake.

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Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.

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Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

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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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Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.

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