Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

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In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done.

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I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

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We are born poets. we become orators.

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Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.

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To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]

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Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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Through doubt we arrive at the truth.

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Philosophy is the true mother of science.

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Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

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

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It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

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Hatred is a settled anger.

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Let us not go over the old ground but rather prepare for what is to come.

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We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

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In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight of the argument. Indeed the authority of those who set out to teach is often an impediment to those who wish to learn. They cease to use their own judgment and regard as gospel whatever is put forward by their chosen teacher.

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Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man.

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There are no true friends in politics.

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That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]

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