Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
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The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
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The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
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True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
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The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.
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Empire and liberty.
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
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Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
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To live is to think.
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I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
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Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
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Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
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We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
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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 countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
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Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.