Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

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Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

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A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

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No sober person dances.

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For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.

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I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

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

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Strain every nerve to gain your point.

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There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

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But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.

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There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.

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No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.

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We are born poets. we become orators.

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What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.

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It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.

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Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

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For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

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No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.

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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

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Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

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