Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.

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To live long, live slowly.

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Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.

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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

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The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

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As I breathe, I hope.

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I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.

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I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

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There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

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While there's life, there's hope.

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If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries. [Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.]

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To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.

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Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.'

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No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

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Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.

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The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

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True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions... It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.

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The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.

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It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.

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