Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

A wise man will see to it that his act always seems voluntary and not done be compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they do not want to do. It is perhaps true that those who can grow will feel free under any condition.

It must always be remembered that you can never do right until you are first free to do wrong; since the doing of a thing under compulsion is evidence neither of good nor bad intent; and if under compulsion, who shall decide what would be the substituted rule of action under full freedom?

Well you don’t have to do it.

I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.

Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice.

I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Freedom is the right to choose the habits that bind you.

Men are not free when they are doing just what they like. The moment you can do just what you like, there is nothing you care about doing.

Freedom of choice can harm no one.

It is never easy to cleanly distinguish freedom and duty, consent and bondage, choice and compulsion.

I'd much rather have the freedom, and the obligation to use it responsibly, than be put in a box.

She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.

Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains.

It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.

A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity.