Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

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When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.

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Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]

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No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

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The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

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If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

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What is permissible is not always honorable.

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A s laws multiply, injustice increases.

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So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!

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In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

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We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.

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There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher.

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Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

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There is nothing which God cannot do. [Lat., Nihil est quod deus efficere non possit.]

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Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.

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There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

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I am a Roman citizen.

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This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.

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There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.

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It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to find out and persevere in the truth. On the other hand, to be imposed upon, to mistake, to falter, and to be deceived, is as ungraceful as to rave or to be insane.

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