Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

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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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No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

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Life is nothing without friendship.

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Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.

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There is a difference between justice and consideration in one's relations to one's fellow men. It is the function of justice not to do wrong to one's fellow men of considerateness, not to wound their feelings.

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Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

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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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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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For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.

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He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

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Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

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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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Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.

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In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful

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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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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.

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The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities, but coeval with that Divine Being who sees and rules both heaven and earth.

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Strict law is often great injustice.

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