1,226 Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.

There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.

The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.