Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.

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I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

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Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

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When they remain silent, they cry out.

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In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

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Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

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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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We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

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To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.

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Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

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Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.

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Scurrility has no object in view but incivility; if it is uttered from feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse; if it is spoken in a joking manner, it may be considered raillery.

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No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

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Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

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Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

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There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God

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