Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.

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Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

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The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

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

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There is nothing god cannot do.

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There is in fact a true law namely right reason, which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men and is unchangeable and eternal. ... It will not lay down one rule at Rome and another at Athens, nor will it be one rule today and another tomorrow. But there will be one law eternal and unchangeable binding all times and upon all peoples.

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Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

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I hate all children of precocious talent.

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The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.

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I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.

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Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

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Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

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We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.

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A s laws multiply, injustice increases.

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Hatred is settled anger.

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Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

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

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What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

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Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

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