Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

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History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.

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Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

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Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

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In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

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Can you also, Lucullus, affirm that there is any power united with wisdom and prudence which has made, or, to use your own expression, manufactured man? What sort of a manufacture is that? Where is it exercised? when? why? how?

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Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself. [Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]

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Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.

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When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

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I am a Roman citizen.

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Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

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Our thoughts are free.

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Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.

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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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In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.

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Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

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Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.

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Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

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Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

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