Quotes By Marcus Tullius Cicero

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

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

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

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

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

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

No sane man will dance.

More law, less justice.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.