Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

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The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

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For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

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Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.

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To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]

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Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.

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

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A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

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Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

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We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

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Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.

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Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

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Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

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All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

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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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Justice renders to every one his due.

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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

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It is better to receive than to do injury.

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Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione quidem violari fas fuit.]

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