Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

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True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.

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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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No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

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I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

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It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.

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It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

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Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home

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Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

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A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.

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How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

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The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion. . . ."

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Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.

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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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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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Diligence which, as it avails in all things, is also of the utmost moment in pleading causes. Diligence is to be particularly cultivated by us; it is to be constantly exerted; it is capable of effecting almost everything.

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The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

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We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

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Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.

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