Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

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Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.

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There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

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Time is the herald of truth.

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To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.

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Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?

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The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.

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To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

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It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.

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Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?

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Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

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

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When they remain silent, they cry out.

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What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

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The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.

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

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That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.

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I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.

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He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.

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