Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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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There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal.

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While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.

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Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

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

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It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.

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True nobility is exempt from fear.

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Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion.

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The law is silent during war. [Lat., Silent leges inter arma.]

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Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]

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Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

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We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.

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Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?

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I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature.

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The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.

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Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

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Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

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The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.

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This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.

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So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.

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