Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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

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An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy).

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It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

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Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.

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Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.

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Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.

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To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business.

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Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.

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Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

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The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

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

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There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

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Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.

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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

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A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]

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Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

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Always the same thing.

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. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed.

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Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

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