Famous Quotes

Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

• I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
• I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
• I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
• If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
• If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
• 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.
• If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
• In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
• In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
• In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
• In time of war the laws are silent.
• It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
• It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
• It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
• It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.