Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

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

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

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.

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

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

More law, less justice.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.