Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

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What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?

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Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word.

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No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god. [Lat., Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans; aut temperans, voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest.]

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

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We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one.

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Ability without honor is useless.

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

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We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

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If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.

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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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Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

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Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

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If wisdom be attainable, let us not only win but enjoy it.

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Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)

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Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

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Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

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The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

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He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.

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