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“Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Thrift is of great revenue.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Hatred is settled anger.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Whatever you do, do with all your might.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“In time of war the laws are silent.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“To some extent I liken slavery to death.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The best interpreter of the law is custom.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
