MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Laws are silent in time of war.

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

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.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.